Not wishing to spend my first night in the capital city of Mamoudzou, I headed south at once, along the eastern shores, bound for the village of Bandrélé. With the waiting time in the queue, it took one hour to sail across. A short drive led to La Barge, the ferry boat, which would get me to the other side. Pamandzi-also known as “Petite Terre”-was where one landed, but I needed to get across to Maore, otherwise known as “Grande Terre,” the main island.
When I checked in at the car hire agency, I was told with a smile, “You have been upgraded to a Fiat Panda!” Scanning my surroundings upon exit, I located the parking lot across the road from the terminal building. Welcome to Mayotte, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean. Otherwise, one would have to quarantine for seven days. For vaccinated passengers, a Covid-19 PCR test was not required upon arrival. With the 33☌ temperature, it was hot and humid. Coming from wintery cold Europe, the temperature shock was immediate. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the species' status as "Near Threatened.The overnight Air Austral flight from Paris, via Reunion Island, landed in Dzaoudzi shortly after midday. It is illegal to catch Caribbean reef sharks in U.S. Despite the shark's abundance in some regions, it has a high mortality rate from bycatch and is sought by commercial fisheries for its fins and meat. It feeds mostly on bony fishes and rarely attacks humans. Living in warm shallow waters often near coral reefs in the Western Atlantic, from Florida to Brazil, the Caribbean reef shark ( Carcharhinus perezi)is the most abundant shark in the Caribbean. In his first blog post for the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, " Swimming with Sharks," Skerry reflects on these exhilarating experiences. Several Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas in this image captured by National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry.įor nearly 30 years, Skerry has been swimming with and photographing sharks, including great whites, tigers, bulls, blacktips, and great hammerheads all over the world.
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