I woke up around 1:30pm. So I got Rachael up and we showered at went to get Craig out of bed. We waited around for the owner again and eventually he drove up and took us into town. It’s about a 20 minute car ride.
We looked at some car rental places, little tourist shops, and ate. I had a tasty little chicken and asparagus toasted sandwich. The beach is beautiful here.
The three of us went in on groceries and then we found out the buses weren’t running any longer so we had to have the grocery store manager call us a taxi. Luckily there were two women that were headed in our direction as well, so after much confusion we split the taxi fare.
When we got home we checked our email. There is a computer set up so you can feed a machine for internet access on the porch. Pretty steep prices and it runs pretty slow. 6 minutes for a dollar and that will barely give you enough time to open up your email.
We walked down to the beach and discovered it really is spectacular. The water is so much warmer than in Aussie and its Crystal clear. About a block away from the hostel there is a lagoon so it is very calm but you can see huge waves breaking out on the reef further in the water.
We met pretty much everyone else that lives in our hostel…about 7 other people. They all seem pretty nice. We played in the ocean with a girl from England-Claire and guy from Ireland-Colin. We threw sea slugs at each other.
We made turkey quesadillas for dinner and then sat around chatting. We are thinking about renting motorbikes but its just more money. I think we are going to wake up and do the cross island hike at 8am with people from our hostel.
Currently we are all sitting in the kitchen; I’m typing this and charging the camera battery because there are no outlets in our room. Which brings me to another point, this is definitely not the best hostel that we have lived in. Rachael and I are in a two bedroom room and the window is pretty much a wall wide and completely open. So it seems like you are sleeping outside.
The roosters crow like crazy here. We couldn’t really get to sleep yesterday. There are lots of random chickens walking around everywhere—lots of mosquitoes and other bugs. Rachael was flipping out last night because there were so many huge centipedes. This place reminds me a lot of Cozumel, MX.
The Island
Clear Water
Our Beach
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