Pictures from
Alphonse Island taken in 2005
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| Alphonse Island Reef in front, then the small Bijoutier Reef and the huge St. Francois Reef in the distance. | This is Alphonse Island. The white and brown areas are the reef with approx. 1m of water. | This was the antenna view when sitting on the beach in front of chalet 1 | The icom AH-4 tuner. I ran two radial wires into the Indian Ocean for good ground and 2 more to the opposite side. It worked! |
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| The famous "Chalet From The Sea" picture, 2005 version. The 2000 version made it into travel brochures. The chalets are hardly visible after 5 years due to the grown vegetation. | The Cork Screw palm tree. There is only one like it on the entire island | A young palm tree had to support the fiberglass mast and antenna tuner. | The view from the veranda. Two palm trees had disappeared. See the 2000 pictures and compare. |
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| The sunrise as seen from the veranda of chalet 1 | The chalets have an outdoor shower. We could regularly watch the fregate birds when taking a shower | Hermit crabs are all over the place. This one got a really nice shell | The former bicycle parking lot was converted into a bar (we did not mind). |
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| The tortoise used to roam freely on Alphonse in 2000. As they became a potential hazard for the airplanes on the runway a very large tortoise pen was created for them. | Chalet 1 again as in 2000 (coincidence?). Check the difference in vegetation compared to the 2000 pictures! | Chalet 1 from the beach |
