The superb ocean bed around the Pigeon isles in the heart of the listed national park of Guadeloupe, are only accessible with a minimum amount of equipment: flippers, mask and tuba, once you have got yourself to Malendure by kayak or some other sort of boat. In the early 1980s they were known as the "Couteau reserve". Besides the ban on fishing or mooring, a good conduct charter has been established for divers which forbids them from feeding the fish or touching corals...