Around the World 2023

Up early and hotel breakfast and then we waited in the lobby, with everyone else, for someone to collect us for our day trip.

Pick up was prompt and we drove to the pier, in the back of a yute. We then checked in and boarded the speed boat. We arrived at the first island and had to disembark into the ocean on rough ground- at last the water shoes came in handy!

We walked for a few minutes and came to the beach, people were rock climbing. We had realised that there were box jellyfish 🪼 around until the end of December so decided no swimming today. Later, when we asked about them we were told they just make you itch! People also said they’d seen jellyfish when they swam.

After about 45 minutes we clambered back onto the boat and we moved to the next island, a hat, sparse sandbank crowded with people. Again we scrambled through an increasingly choppy sea.

Back on the boat we went to look at a rock shaped like a chicken head 🐔, it was getting so choppy and it looked so little like a chicken head I didn’t even take a picture.

Next was snorkeling, but not off the island as advertised, instead off the boat so I sat on the choppy sea while some people had a swim.

We then moved to the last island (yes, you’ll have counted 3 islands on the 4 islands tour) where we had lunch and chance for a swim.

By now the wind was pretty strong and it was a rough ride back to the pier. Once back on land we got the yute transfer to the hotel.

During the afternoon I had developed the grumbling appendix pain I had before and spent the rest of the afternoon in bed. In the evening we went to the supermarket and had hotel room dinner.Leia mais