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Mauritius - Cap Malheureux

Cap Malheureux is the most northerly point of Mauritius, 22km from Port Louis. It was there that the British landed in 1810, although no monument marks the site. From Cap Malheureux, the view of Coin de Mire (Gunner’s Quoin) shows the wedge shape that gave the island its name (the quoin was the wedge used to steady a cannon). There is a picturesque, much–photographed, bright red Roman Catholic chapel close to the beach, Notre Dame Auxiliatrice. Services are held on Saturdays at 18.00 and Sundays at 09.00. During the week from about 13.00, cheerful fishermen gather round a set of scales near the church, weighing, sorting and selling their catch of colourful fish.

Heading east from Cap Malheureux, the coastal road turns inland through stone-encrusted patches of cane, touching the coast again briefly at St François before reaching Grand Gaube. Gaube or goab is the local word for an inlet or bay. This small village is still very much a fishing community and groups of fishermen can be seen relaxing in the evenings with a game of boules or dominoes by the beach. As yet largely untainted by tourism, there is an atmosphere of the ‘real Mauritius’.

Grand Gaube is somewhat isolated, but the industrial town of Goodlands is not far inland. Historic Marine, makers of wooden ship models, is on the St Antoine Industrial Estate. Visitors can watch the models being made in the workshop (weekdays only) and buy the finished products on site

Mauritius - Cap Malheureux

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