Cap Malheureux
The red-roofed church at the island's northern tip, with Coin de Mire across the water. Walk past the church to the fishermen's slipway and eat the catch at the picnic tables.
Why go
Everyone photographs the church, Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice, and it deserves it. Fewer walk two hundred metres on to where the fishing boats land late morning, buy a fish, and eat it at the public tables with the islet of Coin de Mire in front of them. It is where the British landed in 1810 to take the island.
How to do it
Free. Park by the church; the fish is sold when the boats come in, around eleven. The tables by the water are public; there is a small shop for drinks. Sunset here looks north-west over the islands.
Nearby
- Coin de Mire (Gunner's Quoin) · North
- Pereybere · North
- Grand Baie · North