We visited the Bloodthirsty…
From Ajaccio, we went to the Bloodthirsty islands (or the “bloody” islands, in french: Iles Sanguinaires). We arrived, but we couldn’t swim: there were too many jellyfish – again! So we put the dinghy in the water and rowed to the coast. We got out and started walking. We passed ruins of a Nazareth. It’s a hospital or rather a quarantine facility. But the scientists found a coherent answer to the name of the islands we were on. The Nazareth was mostly a place for lepers. Leprosy is a disease that causes the skin to peel and rot, the blood to turn black and after a while you can even lose limbs. The local fishermen would go to collect their fishing nets and they would regularly see black blood in the water from the lepers…
Anyway, we walked around and went to the island’s lighthouse and then the guardians’ house. The island is very beautiful and wild. We also saw baby gulls 1 meter away from us.
Looking forward to full reports on your new trip Oliver!
Hi Anthony, nice to see you reed my pages. Yes, we are going to post a fiew more articles. How are you ? See you soon !
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Was ist denn das für ein Vogel mit Entenfüssen :-)? Hübsch …. lieber Oliver, Deinen Pflanzen geht es gut, sie leben alle noch 😉 Geniesst es noch ….
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