Devils' Island

Devils’ Island, French Guiana: 10:50am. Hottest temperatures we’ve experienced so far. As they say: it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. And humidity it was. Well, humid it was.

We wandered around the Island Paradise that is devils’ island and spent some time looking around the place that was a large penal colony for many years and I’m sure was hell for the people who lived it. For us, the monkeys in the trees and wild peacocks and other birds, beautiful tropical palms over looking the ocean made it feel like paradise. As beautiful as it was it was also a very small island, one you can walk the perimeter in under an hour, so I’m sure island fever would set in quickly.