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Mauritius - Pointe aux Canonniers

ile maurice pointe aux canonniers The point with the Gunners formerly sheltered a fort, charged to defend the North-western point of the island. One can see still there the remainders of a tower and guns pointed towards the sea.
Today, it is a small village, which extends along an often been windy coast.
2 great tourist complexes settled there, the Med Club and the Gunner, but this place still is very preserved, undoubtedly because it is found there that small beaches, and that the wind is often present there.

ile maurice pointe aux canonniers We invite you to walk you on the deserted beaches, with low tide to collect beautiful given lustre to shells there, and to admire the Corner of Test card there, an imposing island with broad of Maurice.
The evening, you can lie on the beach, with the shelter of the wind and admire the million stars which populate the Milky Way and to have like us it chance to see shooting stars.
The Point with the Gunners is a very good observatory for stars.

ile maurice pointe aux canonniers If you like fishing, we advise you this full of fish place. To high tide, at the end of the rocks test you with fishing Mauritian, with a simple cane in bamboo, a hook, wire (enough minimum strapping man 14 kgs) and a cork stopper, you will discover the joys of typical fishing and will be able to catch beautiful fish. Attention with the Shoe-makers, the consistent flesh, but with the frightening vénimeuses fins. Nothing mortal, but a strong pain and a heating which can last a good day at the place of the puncture.
If it sometimes happened to you to be piqué by this fish, one of the many fishermen, always present in trimmings, it will know how you will see to look after easily. If not run to pharmacy to Large-Bay.

There are no dangerous fish with Maurice, only the Shoe-maker, pleasant to fish, but who can prick you.

ile maurice pointe aux canonniers The two other dangerous fish, you are not likely to fish them with the line! It sagit of the fish hones, which ground in sand and awaits its prey. It is surmounted by a frightening backbone, which when it pricks you, gives you the fever. This fish is rather rare, but it is advised to bathe with plastic sandals to avoid the accident.
The other dangerous fish is the fish scorpion, any red and splendid with its "wings", it is frightening and causes also a good fever. But he also is rather rare, we have appercu of it one, at the time of our many bathes and divings.

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