Hydrotherapy & Sunbaking

After the photo shoot and shelling, I took a cold water plunge in the Atlantic. I wish I could have stayed in longer. The waves were wicked, though, and after all the stories I heard the other day about riptide, I wasn't going to go in very far.

After cold plunging, I donned the bathrobe provided by the hotel and had to walk through the hotel lobby to get to the room.

The spa at the hotel offers a hydrotherapy circuit, which is comprised of both indoor and outdoor hottubs, showers, cold and hot showers with the water coming out of the walls from every direction, a steam room, and a sauna. We signed up for an hour of hydrotherapy and moved back and forth between each of the rooms.

The sauna was my favorite. The bowl of menthol fluid with the large ladle sat in the corner of the sauna. We weren't really sure what to do with it. Smell it, put some on the coals? One of us, I won't say who, decided that it was for rubbing on our bodies and that it had an emollient quality about it that made the skin feel nice. She who will not be named was rubbing her whole body down with it and convinced the other one of us to do it as well.

We had to walk back through the hotel lobby, now both of us in our robes, to get to the pool. It got up to 70 degrees today, and the sun was mostly out. The breeze was cool, but overall, it was nice. Great weather for sunbaking.

Yesterday, I was reading a website that was likely translated to English, and it said that "sun baking" was allowed on the beach. We got a good laugh out of that and have been referring to it as such ever since.

It's been a very nice, relaxing day.Read more