SAINT-ANNE NATIONAL MARINE PARK
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National marine park with some 150 varieties of fish, 5 km from the Mahelian sandbanks in Sainte-Anne.
Attention, don't forget mask, fins, snorkel and underwater cameras! Here, butterfly fish and trumpet fish, damsel fish and pipe fish, goat fish and parrot fish, cardinal fish and picasso fish, all receive visitors without an appointment... What a poetic aquarium the Indian Ocean is when seen from the Seychelles coast! An aquarium which, within the Sainte-Anne National Marine Park, is said to have some 150 varieties of fish, five small kilometers from the Mahelian sandbanks. Created in 1973, at a time when few countries cared about the protection of the environment, this park is located in front of Victoria, around the islands of Sainte-Anne, Cerf, Longue, Moyenne and Ronde. Rangers are responsible for its surveillance. "Don't take anything but pictures, don't leave anything but footprints," the tourist brochures recommend. Tourists are invited to enjoy the depths of this coral reef, thanks to the boats operated by Creole Travel Services and Mason's Travel, which offer the possibility of memorable snorkeling sessions. Excursions where local guides will reveal that there are about seventeen varieties of sea urchins (some of them gigantic) and no less than a hundred varieties of corals, which grow only 5 cm per year (ten centuries are necessary for a 25 m coral). Unfortunately, in reality, many of them seem to have disappeared...
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