When we arrived in Mauritius, we were given a 30 day tourist visa….but since we found such good boat services here, our stay in in Mauritius was more or less a work stop. So when our visas came close to expiration, we had to extend our 30 day visa for no better reason than to wait for a good weather window : )
A quick 10 mitues walk from the marina was the immigration and passport office…. 
It is located on the second floor of the “Sterling House” building. 
A short application…though there is no real “line” or numbers to take so you just have to keep watch for your turn. Additionally, we were asked for a letter from the marina stating our boat was there. We provided our “contact” we were given from Parvez when we first came into Le Caudan marina….this seemed to work in lieu of a letter. 
Done….
Our last week in Mauritius was a myriad of chaos…..this could explain it….we met SV Star Charger IV: Captain Alasdair and wife Gill with Peter who is crew.
SV Start Charger IV: Alasdair, GIll, and Peter…you know the other guy : )
We had so much fun with these guys….it is just amazing how fast you connect with your type of people! I think we laughed so hard I peed my pants!
Back at the Le Caudan marina, the Indian Ocean Island Games were in full swing….
The squash court right in the middle of the waterfront… 
We had front row seats when had happy hour beers with SV Star Charger IV!
And the chores begin….
After a few emails from Reunion, the price of diesel was cheaper in Mauritius, even with a deliver truck, by about $0.27/liter. In theory, this route would of been more convenient but it turns out their fuel hose is very short. The fuel truck can only come to the marina after 5pm as we assume they have other business for the trucks during business hours. So on the evening of our scheduled delivery, it was determined that where we were tied to the wharf, their hose could not reach us. So we had to re-schedule and move our boat. The marina was pretty full at the time but we maneuvered between and abck to our original spot without incident…thank goodness!
Fill er’ up!!! 
Take note if you want fill up via the fuel delivery truck .
Another chore…Mauritius is a duty free zone…however, with that said there are not too many duty free store that we could find. Trevor went “hunting” for a cheaper duty free store than the one in Caudan Waterfront….but did not prevail….so we made our order and it was delivered on a few days.
Trevor was able to negotiate price due to the amount we were purchasing….no photo of the contraband…that would be proof : ) (hahahaha)
Finally…. it’s time to check out as a good weather window was upon us. We visited the Customs house to schedule the clearance out…immigration has to come from the office so we had to wait an hour. Lost in translation, the immigration guy went to our boat while we walked around and came back to the customs house… “A” for effort for immigration…so sorry we had you walk back.
Pretty painless clearance here : )
What we missed in Mauritius
Sad to say, we did not achieve all we wanted to do in Mauritius…it is not often Trevor and I feel like we really missed something…but in Mauritius we did. Our time here felt like the boat had most of our attention and even though our stay spanned 6 weeks, we somehow missed opportunities or had really bad timing.
- A visit with the leader of the Chagos Refugee Group in Mauritius, Olivier Bancoult: A real reason for us to make it to Mauritius was to get a feel for what the Chagosian people felt after the new International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling this February which determined Britian’s occupation of Chagos is illegal. I had made a few phone calls to the Chagos Refugee Group and almost had an appointment with Olivier but it was too late and we were leaving the country. After a quick Google search, it looks as if the UN has now backed the ICJ motion and now there is talk about giving the UK 6 months to withdrawal from Chagos….WOW..read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/22/uk-suffers-crushing-defeat-un-vote-chagos-islands
- The Blue Penny Museum: It is said that the “Blue Mauritius” is the one of world’s rarest stamps! We could of seen it at this museum…literally 2 minute walk from our boat. We just took it for granted it was so close and never actually stopped in. What is so cool abut these “blue” stamps? Read more from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius_%22Post_Office%22_stamps
- Hiking: It would of been nice to take in the Black River Gorge National Park. There were other shorter days hike like Le Pouce, or Le Morne….we had a day with the car and planned to do a short day hike with Neptune’s Highway, but then we got a call our outboard motor was ready …so priorities changed ; ( Read more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_River_Gorges_National_Park
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