Snowing ash - Mauritius

This is cane sugar country, we have resisted the factory tours but became caught up when outside a vast shopping mall near Grand Bay and noticed a strong smell of burning,smoke haze and a lot of black charred slivers being swept up. The sugar cane fields were being burned.

Back on the boat  we found that the anchorage was also affected. As long as the residue didn't get wet it blew away in the wind and the residue was quite easy to vacuum up.

Clearing up the cane ash