Anchorage· Mahé (east coast)· Seychelles
Anse aux Pins (off-reef day anchorage)
4° 42.0′ S · 55° 31.9′ E · approximate
The long reef-sheltered beach south of the airport, a calm-weather lunch stop off Mahé's east coast with the Domaine de Val des Prés craft village and Creole restaurants a short walk inland.
Practical
Approximate: placed about 900 m off the beach, east of the Anse aux Pins bay point and beach mapped on OpenStreetMap; there is no published yacht anchorage or waypoint and the reef edge is not charted in OSM, so approach only in good light with a bow lookout and sound in to sand outside the reef. Seyvillas: an offshore reef shelters the beach and the sea inside is very shallow, so shallow that at low tide you can sometimes walk out to the reef and swimming is only practical at high tide; seagrass June to September; wind- and kitesurfing. Land the dinghy across the lagoon only near high water. Exposed to the SE trades (May-Oct); consider it only in calm or NW-monsoon conditions and do not stay overnight. Ashore: police station, clinic and bus terminal (OSM); Domaine de Val des Prés about 1.3 km south.
Best for
Calm-day lunch stop and a walk to the craft village
Season
NW monsoon (Dec-Apr) and calms only
Nearby
- Anse aux Pins Craft Village (Domaine de Val des Prés)1 NM away
- Takamaka Rum Distillery (La Plaine St André)1.3 NM away
- Lost City Dive1.4 NM away
- Turtle Rock Dive1.5 NM away
- Pointe Larue and Seychelles International Airport1.6 NM away
- LPG and Fuel, Victoria and East Coast2 NM away
- Manis Bank Dive2 NM away
- Ile Souris and Fairyland Snorkel (Pointe au Sel)2.2 NM away