Race With The Devil - Judas Priest

The third and final Reason to be Cheerful in Kourou was a visit to Iles du Salut, including the infamous Devil's Island of Papillion fame. Unfortunately this wretched Google Blog Site is playing up yet again and there is neither the time or the will to sort out the jumble of today's photographs. It is after all more a pictorial than anything, just to give the reader the idea of what the day was all about.

Setting off from the mainland at sunrise

onboard the catermeran of the same name.

Looking down river.

The Lighthouse at the river mouth.

and the 3 Islands. ROYALE, SAINT JOSEPH and ILLE DE DIABLE

The views entering harbour.

ROYAL TERNs

 

Devil's Island

All 3 Islands were used as sites of imprisonment.
Time to look around.

Infants Grave Yard

Along the Coast

"The House of the Sad Arabs"
Arab Quarantine Area (above)

One for the 'Liftonhouse' People

Modern Technology, in more ways than one.

Turnstone

Catfish, one of 3 caught from the pier today.

Sea Loop

Squirrel Monkey

Not so 'wild', contented Pigs.

Short-tailed Swift

Pale-breasted Thrush

Wasp

male Wing-barred Seedeater

Agouti

Capuchin Sp

Lizard

Spotted Sandpiper

Several Iguanas on the coastal rocks.

Spotted Sandpiper in flight.

adult Laughing Gull (right)

Spotted Tody Flycatcher

Toad

The Fairway Buoy - Homeward Bound

Opposing Waves
It wasn't the Islands that were separating the waves here.
No, the rollers were coming in from great distance across both
Western Atlantic Ocean (right) and Caribbean Sea (left).