Trou aux Biches sand, being coral based, is invariably soft, cool and white...

Mauritius Trou aux Biches

...though winter weather can be a little - shall we say - flexible,...

...but the hotel bars and bungalows make a good retreat.

Pictures left to right: Trou aux Biches sand; a couple of the well camouflaged hotel bunglows; a Laser winter's day as a storm rolls past.