Reunion Island

I have booked a holiday over christmas to reunion. Does anyone know if the
underwater life is any good. There seams to be very little info in books and
they seam to concentrate on islands like Mauritus.

In article <bkeqtr$p8g$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>,
paul@armadilloeng.freeserve.co.uk says...
> I have booked a holiday over christmas to reunion. Does anyone know if the
> underwater life is any good. There seams to be very little info in books and
> they seam to concentrate on islands like Mauritus.
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Just about everything you see applying to Mauritius goes
for Reunion. Do a search on "Plongee La Reunion" or
suchlike and you will get plenty of info:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scu...+&ie=ISO-8859-
1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

Have fun!

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I stopped over there once after diving in Mauritius.

It is a French island, the people a kind of creole (cafe au lait in color) and
speak a special creole language like Haiti, but different.

The island is volcanic and quite spectacular with the interior sort of like some
giant caldera and with a road that has more hairpin turns that you can shake a
stick at. But having said it is volcanic, that means, in this case, there are
no barrier reefs. I did not dive there but asked and no one seemed to know of
any dive operations and told me that divers there would go to Mauritius.

I have to say that the diving in Mauritius is weak with scattered coral and not
a great fish life. I've also dived the Seychelles and Nosy Be off Madagascar.
This eastern part of the Indian Ocean is weak for diving, compared to the
intense fish live and corals that were once such an attraction in the Maldives
(I've had three trips there to different resorts). Yes, I know some people
who've been to Aldabra and thought it was an exception.

With time so short and money so dear, it seems a waste to go running off to Ille
de la Reunion if you haven't dived PNG, Red Sea, Palau, and a host of other
worthy dive destinations. But if you have a wanderlust, as do I, then go! If
nothing more, you can add Ille de la Reunion to your collection of islands
you've visited.

P.S. there was a sign at the Ille de la Reunion airport (in French) warning of
"paludisme." My French isn't that bad -- but the word puzzled me until I
figured out it was the French word for malaria.


Armadillo Engineering wrote:

> I have booked a holiday over christmas to reunion. Does anyone know if the
> underwater life is any good. There seams to be very little info in books and
> they seam to concentrate on islands like Mauritus.

I visited there once back in the mid 80's. It is a volcanic island -- no reefs
and the locals there told me that they went to Mauritius for diving.

It is an interesting island to see -- and is French -- Ille de la Reunion (a
part of France). The enter of the island is a huge caldera with a road to to
top you wouldn't believe even if I described it.

Armadillo Engineering wrote:

> I have booked a holiday over christmas to reunion. Does anyone know if the
> underwater life is any good. There seams to be very little info in books and
> they seam to concentrate on islands like Mauritus.

[TheSnake]

There is a reef on the West Coast, at "Saint Gilles Les Bains".
Nice lagoon and divings.

[TheSnake]

Yes. Lovely place to dive in .....
Best spots dive are near "Saint Gilles les Bains" and "Saint Leu".
You can find some photos taken in Reunion Island on my website.

Have fun.