In Mayotte
17 October 2016 | Dzaoudi
We have been in Mayotte for one week now moored off Dzaoudi on Petite Terre. Most of the good shopping is on Grande Terre in the city of Mamoudzou easily accessible by ferry every half hour. Prices are expensive in the same range as Seychelles. Mayotte is a department of France and the large supermarket brands such as Casino and Carrefours are found everywhere.
Our passage to Mayotte took 7 days. We hove to about 10 miles from the island for several hours so that we could enter the lagoon in daylight. Our first three days were uneventful sailing in moderate winds, followed by two days of motoring , and then a day and a half of winds up to 30 knots as we approached Mayotte. At several points waves were in the vicinity of 4 metres thankfully on the rear quarter.
We are now thinking of heady directly for South Africa in the next week or two rather than crossing over to Madagascar.