Time Flies

It seemed like Barry and Diane just arrived with Scott and Kathy. They were only able to stay 4 days.


Barry and Diane ready to leave at the Stella Maris Airport


Heading for the plane

After taking Barry and Diane to the plane and seeing them off, we headed out for a day of sightseeing of the South of the island with Scott and Kathy.

We had been told about a place we had to stop for lunch called "Max's Conch Bar." Max makes the best Conch Salad on the island. It was a unique place to say the least. Bob was the only one daring enough to order it. I had some - it was very spicy, but good.


Ceiling of Max's open air conch bar


Scott and Kathy at the bar

After lunch we went looking for the famous "Blue Hole" on the island. It is 633 feet deep and loved by all who dive. When we got there we found a group of people who turned out to be "free divers" from all over the world that were working on a free diving competition and also going for a world record.


It too was being clogged with sea weed.


Team Japan on the left.


Kathy on the steps of the Catholic Church in Clarance Town

At the very South end of the island is Gordon's Beach. A beautiful beach at the end of the road, mostly deserted everyday and good for shelling.


Tree decorated by nature with all sorts of washed up stuff


Bob and Penny and Scott and Kathy pooped after doing a long walk in the sun on the beach.

Friday, we spent the day back by the resort beach front property. The wind had picked up and the waves were awesome. The tidal pool looked like the spin cycle on a huge washing machine! Unfortunately, none of the photos I took do the power justice.


Photo of waves


Only the video does the waves justice


Kathy had bought the three of us cute T Shirts, unfortunately Diane got away before we could get a photo of the three of us.


We found this beach at the end of the road to the north. We had to cross a bridge that would no longer support a car and walk a ways to get to it. It was a beautiful protected beach, however, it was filled with a ton of flotsam and jetsom that had floated in - what a shame.


Kathy and I in front of the beautiful bougainvillea plant by the Cape Santa Maria main building

Our last tonight together, we had dinner at Long Island Breeze where we had hoped to catch another "green flash." Unfortunately, we did get to see that, but enjoyed the sunset anyway.



Sunday morning, we had hoped to see Scott and Kathy off, but it turned out that their flight left early. When we got there, their plane was at teh end of the runway, so we missed them.

We still are not quite sure where we will go from here. Our plan is to go back to
George Town for the Family Island Regatta later in April. We may not have Internet for a periods of up to a week during the next month.