Harrigans Ghut

Aaahhhh .....it is raining! So a late start to Brewers Beach, which the guide book said was a bay of pure sand and turtles with Kates beach shack providing a warm welcome to the many tourists that wanted a more authentic experiance. We should have realised when none of the Taxi's wanted to ho there! So when we were dropped off next to burnt out car and a derelict cafe with four other tourists waiting to leave as the beach had more rocks than sand, we were concerned, plus our taxi driver was not going to come back for us! After it stopped raining and Kate had cooked ad a fish sandwich we walked further around the bay and thankfully the beach turned into pure sand and the sun came out. Once in the sea it was a lovely shallow beach do you could swim out along way. But no Turtles and we had to leave early to share a taxi to ensure we made it back to port.
As we sailed away from the island they have always have music on the outside veranda so we had a drink and met a very chatty couple in there 70's who the husband had Parkinsons but was not letting him stop playing Tennis and travelling. We guess a quarter of the ship were battling with some condition so most of the people we spoke to were understanding although we did have a few who were just not interested.Read more