Assumption Island, Seychelles

A true paradise island, with pure white soft sand, warm turquoise water, and giant tortoises!

Assumption is a coralline formation -- very flat, with few trees and little vegetation to speak of.  It has a spectacular reef with huge coral heads and a white ocean floor.  Jacques Cousteau said he'd never seen any other place on earth with the same clarity of water or diversity of reef life.  (Oh, how I wish I were a snorkeler!)

Mr. W is my guest photographer today -- he snapped this benevolent looking giant tortoise.  He says it was "a torpid tortoise, who thought about running away, but couldn't be bothered."  Ha!  I don't think tortoises -- torpid or otherwise -- are ever successful at "running away!"