Honeymoon in Mauritius - Part 4

After relaxing in the hotel for two days....going to the beach, taking walks just outside the hotel, sitting down in the room watching tv, romancing, eating pizzas for lunch......it was time for the saturday outing of 'Blue Safari Submarine'. Our group was taken to the motherboat of the submarine by another motor driven boat. We boarded the submarine through the top hatch by a ladder. The submarine had seats two in a row !! The 'cockpit' was a cramped space where buttons, displays, gauges, levers were mounted. The 'pilot' climbed in and all of us cheered him with a whoop of 'yeah !!' There were round windows along the sides of each seat. When we first climbed into the submarine we saw the hull of the motherboat since the submarine was attached to the motherboat.
After the 'pilot' explained the tour and the controls of the submarine in brief...the submarine took off. The submarine ride was smooth and it was like a turbulence free plane ride !! We saw many colourful fish and undersea life !! The pilot took us close to a barrier reef which is a undersea mountainous formation of corals. We were also taken to a shipwreck. The pilot explained that the mauritians dont sell old ships in scrap. Instead they purposely sink ships. The ships become breeding grounds for undersea plants which becomes food for the fishes and hence helps in preserving undersea life !! At the end of 35 minutes, we were taken up again. As the submarine rose, the sunlight being refracted through the waters created the impression that the surface of the waters was golden !! It was beautiful and can hardly be described. We were given some refreshments and were taken back to the shore. The shore area belonged to a hotel. The hotel had a big lobby opening out into its restaurant facing the sea !! It had a few sovenir shops where we picked up more sovenirs. We were taken back to our hotel. We picked up some bags of crisps and chocolate bars, which was our lunch for the day !! (The submarine ride was at 2:30 PM and it was 4 by the time we came back to shore. The driver was not ready to stop for lunch as he had to report back at 5:30 PM max). At dinner, we were given our special candle light dinner, which was a part of our holiday package !! The candle light dinner was on an outdoor table. They gave us special heart shaped pastries !!
The next day we were to depart mauritius. In the morning we did kayaking in the waters of our hotel's beach !! After this we had pizza once again !! The private cab driver dropped us to the hotel, where we spent time having coffee and window shopping in mauritius airport shopping area. We reached mumbai airport at around 3:30 AM in the morning, took a prepaid cab and came home at around 5 AM. It was good to see aai and baba....they had missed us more than we had missed them of course !! We were totally lost in each other and in the lovely country of mauritius !!