This afternoon, we would leave the resort in Nosy-Be and fly back to Antananarivo for New Year’s.  I’m still not feeling much better, so I’m convinced this is not from the car ride.  Therefore, I’m taking the advice of Dr. Fitzsimons of the Traveler’s Medical Clinic back in Canada, and I’m taking some real medication.  He prescribed some powerful 3-day antibiotics to take if we felt we picked up a bug of some sort and needed to kill it.  Of course, nausea is listed as a side effect of the pills, but who cares since I already have it?  Basically, I’m putting more faith in the advice of a Canadian physician who I saw for only 20 minutes and over 8 months ago than the advice of a local doctor who examined me for an hour while I was actually sick (she said I didn’t need to take the antibiotics).

Briefly fast forward a day, and I’m feeling significantly better, and 2 days later almost normal again.  It could be a coincidence, but I’m betting the drugs cleared everything up.

When it was time to leave later that afternoon, the electric golf car picked us up at our room and drove us back to the reception area where we checked out and met the boat.  This time we would take a boat for part of the ride back to the airport.  What an improvement over the bush trails!

Back at Nosy-Be airport, we arrived a little early for our flight (actually 90 minutes ahead), but better early than late.  Eventually, we flew back to Tana on another nice 72-seat plane.  The flight took about 80 minutes.

Nadine’s family picked us up at the airport.  Since I still wasn’t feeling totally great, we opted out of plans to go out for New Year’s Eve celebrations, and instead headed back to the Palissandre Hotel to rest.  Other than being awakened at midnight by very loud fireworks, it was a restful night.