Finally - A Day At The Beach!

As you may have guessed, it’s been quite an adjustment getting used to our duties down here and we’ve been going at it pretty hard this last month. Well, we’ve been promising ourselves some time off and we finally made it to the beach! We decided to visit a beach we haven’t been to before called “Playa Preita” which means “Secret Beach” in Spanish. This was a Thursday afternoon and although it wasn’t a complete secret, there were only a few other people on the beach. If it weren’t for the large number of mosquitoes we had to swat away the whole time, it would have been an absolutely perfect afternoon! Well, that and the fact that Jim had rigged up the perfect umbrella for shade where he used duct tape to attach an old umbrella to a broken broom stick which didn’t work out quite as well as we hoped. It looked great before we headed out, but once there the breeze was a little strong and despite our best efforts at wedging it deep in the sand, it kept blowing over. I guess umbrellas have a broad stand for a reason, right? Oh well, a valiant effort never the less on his part and hopefully we can use it somewhere else.

Since the beach day, though, the mosquitoes seem to have tapered off so we’re hopeful we won’t have to continue to douse ourselves with mosquito repellent whenever we are outside for long periods of time. We did thoroughly enjoy getting away for a few hours and as time permits, we hope to explore some of the other beaches on the island as well. In addition, there is also a historic fort in Isabel that overlooks the ocean that we want to explore as well as an art gallery there that’s supposed to be really nice.