Day 2

Today was such a nice day! The weather was perfect! All day Raymond kept saying how nice it was up here the first weekend of July. How we know it’s not too busy for the future, but everything is open and the weather is perfect! Which is true. He kept commenting on how there are a lot of people, but it is not crowded which is nice.

We decided to head through town and go west along the beach today and explore the beach we haven’t gone before! The first time here we stayed on the western edge of town, but always headed East through town or the National park so we decided to explore where we haven’t yet. There is not much west of town, just forests and the water (and a very long stretch of Buddhist beach) until you get to the next town about 12km away I think. It was a nice forested walk and we would head down to walk along the beach a bit here and there (and take breaks and enjoy the water). Right outside of town there were some people, but not too many, but by the time we took a break before heading back as were the only people on the beach! You could see town from there and got full of people the beach was there, but no one out by us. It was sunny off and on and just a gorgeous day! By the time we were walking back to town the clouds had cleared up completely and it was hot so we got some gelato - melon for me! They were the tiniest scoops ever and precariously placed in the cones, but pretty tasty.

This evening we went to a brewery for dinner beet burgers which were ginormous! Like the size of my head which is way bigger than we were expecting! But pretty tasty and they came with sweet potato fries which were also very good. Raymond tried one of their beers and I had a virgin mojito - it was so nice they offered nonalcoholic cocktails! Then back to our place for sunset on the balcony. Walking through town after dinner a lot of places had live music playing for dinner which was nice and unexpected. Such a nice day, really perfect weather, not too hot not too cold. This afternoon I probably could have swam in the cold water as the sun was warm enough, but we relaxed after our long walk instead. Maybe tomorrow if it is warm enough :) Oh, and we kept seeing fancy ship sailing around the water which was fun (you can see it if you zoom in on the last photo - it went by again as we were sitting in the balcony).

There is also a festival going on here this weekend and each night there has been a band playing on the big stage in the middle of town. I’m sitting on the balcony right now listening :)Okumaya devam et