Lazy Saturday!

Saturday, February 15, 2014.

We spent most of the morning just soaking up the beautiful sun!  Brenda whipped up a batch of cookies, oatmeal and oatmeal choco chip.  We also got into a couple of games of Spades, and so far I think I am ahead in the W column!  It is so very relaxing sitting out in the quiet with a cup of coffee.  The weekends aren't so busy with the worker traffic going by on the beach as during the week days.  Our caretaker, Rene, showed up as he does daily to groom the beach for us and make sure everything is going as it should.  Brenda rewarded him with some cookies fresh out of the oven.  Banana and Bhuda showed up again this morning and low and behold, they took kibble from me without hesitation this time.  I think they have figured out their previous benefactor, Dan, is no longer around.
We took a run into San Pedro and Brenda gave the workers at the toll both some fresh cookies.  We checked out the department store.  It has just about everything in there.  I looked at a propane BBQ made by "Char-Broil", it was one we would pay about $300 CAD for back home, it was $650 USD!  I did find a smokin' deal, a pair of Adidas sunglasses for $7.50 USD (knock offs!).  As I had already broken one pair and was down to my $9.00 CAD Rapellas from Can. Tire, I figured a back up pair was necessary.
We decided to head north again today and see if we could find a beach that our neighbours had told us about.  They said it was on the west side of the island and was awesome.  Clear sand and no seaweed.  We hit the T were we had been last time with Shannon, JT and Dan, and this time headed west.  It was about a 35 minute ride to the location from the T.  This road was the best we had been on!  It was brand spankin' new, wide and no pot holes!  

It was kinda neat, as a long part of the road was bordered on either side by mangroves and Brenda thought it looked a lot like some of the scenes from Swamp People and she even tried her impersonation of Troy from that HGTV series and yelled out "Shoooooot 'emm!"  Apparently there is a subdivision being built out there.  We saw only one actual house out this way and it had solar panels.  These were the first I have seen on the island.  As we got nearer to western shore line we noticed a number of roads being built off of the main road, we also noticed a number of signs with lot numbers on them.  We hit the shoreline, which is the end of the road, and noted there was a couple of docks plus a small house there that appeared to be a sales office for the developer.  The beach was not what we expected.  Not a lot of sand on the shoreline, but it was seaweed free out as far as you could see.  We determined that the location was not quite worth the drive out to it to spend a day.  The road from the T back to the Palapa Bar turn is very rough and your internal organs take extensive joggling, and that is traveling a just better than a brisk walk!
That  evening Munchkin made an awesome spinach salad and we added chicken that we had picked up

That's an egret perched on the top of the palapa above the flag!

from a spot in town.  It was a whole chicken done on a rotisserie and it was very good!
We had another beautiful sunset and after catching up on some of the Olympic results hit the hay for a well deserved rest!