Providence Atoll is located 700 kilometres southwest of Mahe and 56 kilometres north of Farquhar Atoll, the southernmost atoll in the Seychelles. This remote atoll has a total area of 345 km² including the large lagoon, which stretches 55 km from north to south and 14 km from east to west. The atoll consists of two islands, Providence North and Cerf Island, and a shallow lagoon system with vast plains and sandbanks connected to the ocean by countless feeder channels. The large ear-shaped lagoon with safe anchorages downwind offers easy skiff access to the fantastic fly fishing grounds. It is one of two destinations in the Seychelles where you can catch the bumphead parrotfish.