Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Awoke after a better night’s sleep as the bites from Monday evening had quietened down, thankfully. Unfortunately the weather isn’t looking too good today, very cloudy, very windy and very annoyingly, heavy showers, still that won’t deter us.
After breakfast we seemed to linger about just hoping the rain would stop, and I “think” Martin would have be happy to just sit and read his book but unfortunately that doesn’t happen with the Page’s in Antigua, oh no. Today we are taking him to Half Moon Beach in the South East; this beach is in a normally sheltered cove, but the cove also opens up to the Atlantic, so it will be interesting to see what the state of the sea is.
A lot later than planned we hit the road, Waze says this 13-mile journey will take 47-minutes; she was right of course, what with pot holes, traffic and now rain!!!
We pulled into the car park but being lunch-time and our “tums” were rumbling, we headed straight into the “Beach Bum Bar and Cafe”, known to us as the “shack” and ordered lunch. The service today is still as slow as it was last week, still we enjoyed our choices, but as we ate the rain started again and with the wind, even tucked well under the “Shack” roof, we still got wet. With this rain came many off the beach, including the couple from Jersey we met on Tuesday who joined us for a beer.
Today the Atlantic rollers penetrated the bay, and they rolled up the beach like we’ve never seen here before. There was one guy out there kite-surfing, but struggling in the high wind but apart from a few walkers, most were in the Shack.
Though the rain came down hard, it soon stopped and Martin and Christine went for a walk to the rocks at the end of the beach, I stayed chatting with the couple from Jersey. The rocks at the end were being bashed by the Atlantic rollers; quite a spectacle I was told.
At an earlier visit I had noticed the Shack had a coffee machine, so upon Christine and Martin’s return we ordered coffees, result!!! At this point the couple from Jersey took their leave and if by magic, we started chatting to the two ladies on the table behind us. They told us they were “Empty Nesters” from British Columbia in Canada. “Empty Nesters”, explain please, apparently they say this when their children have grown up and left home the parent heads to the sun, especially from Columbia in Canada at this time of the year!!!
Time to head back, as I have said before, I hate driving in the dark but this late afternoon I was also driving in the rain!!!
Our “snack” lunch turned out to be quite large so back on the verandah we settled for a roll and crisps, naturally with a G’nT before heading to bed. Tomorrow we are sailing, we have everything crossed for decent weather.
