Pink Granite
One of the interesting factoids Jessie shared that I forgot to mention in my write-up about our visit to Vallée de Mai was that the granite throughout the islands is pink. When exposed to weather, it tends to turn various shades of dark gray, almost black in some places. But looking at chunks of freshly hewn rock, it is indeed pink, and it is used a great deal in construction, giving the islands a distinct local color palette.
