Friday, November 16, 2018

November 16 Devil’s Island and Ile Royale, French Guiana

 

Did you see the movie, or read the book, Papillion?  Well it was based on a true escape from Devil’s Island that happened in 1941.  We were able to see the island and land on the adjacent island call Ile Royale.  They had the hospital and cemetery for the children of the guards there.  The guards had families her on Royale.  The children were buried here, the guards were buried on a nearby island and the prisoners were dumped into the sea.

 

                                                                                       devils (640x454)   This is Devil’s Island

 

 

duane                       arl (640x467) here we are

 

                         cat (640x479)          a black cat, of course                                monkeys (640x621)   monkeys everywhere (the best part)

 

                                     IMG_0657                                      IMG_0659  some of the buildings that are left.  Hospital.

                                                                                 IMG_0673  the island itself is beautiful.

 

The weather was what you would expect.  Hot and muggy.  It started to rain, no problem.  It started to really rain, so we took shelter under a overhang.  Then we thought, you can only get so wet.  So we went on our way and got wet.  Well, it turned out that as wet as we got from the rain, did not compare to how wet we got from sweating.  We did a lot of walking and half of it was uphill, very uphill.  When we got back to the ship, we had lunch and came to the room and took off our wet clothes and fell dead asleep, for 2 hours.  This lower altitude is getting to us.

 

We have a sea day tomorrow, so we will sleep in. 

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