More than 90% of this island is protected, and only a small slice of land on the eastern shores is developed. Walk the trails or alongside the shores and you will be completely alone and in a truly amazing setting.
The foreground in this image is a reminder of what is the very foundation of life here: granite! The rock seen in the sand is but a miniature island. In the distance is the largest of the Seychelles islands – Mahe. The biggest granite rock of them all. Without them, only life in the seas would have ruled here.
As this is an eastern facing location, the sunset, and light, is coming from the opposite direction.
Shooting a sunset from a beach here is almost impossible, as there are no buildings or hotels of any kind on the sunset side of the island, and the entire island is surrounded by a reef, so getting to it by boat is not possible either. Hiking there is also extremely hard as you will have to first climb up to the center of the island – several hundred meters above the sea! The highest point of the island is 751 meters (2463 feet)!
Thus my twilights on Silhouette was that of a sunrise or a hint of a sunset, as seen here.
Last updated on 25 October 2021
