Friday 10th January 2025
Beach number 3 today; Half Moon Beach right down in the south east of the Island.but first breakfast and “another” trip to our local supermarket. The trouble is we have a “huge” one called “Epicure” round the corner and it has aisles dedicated to numerous countries around the world, as well as catering packs; we always come out with more than we want!!! This is also a favourite “Go-To” place for the crews of the “Super Yachts” moored in English Harbour or Falmouth Harbour. You always know as usually it is a young lady with a white polo shirt with the name of the yacht and pushing 4 or 5 trellises.
We awoke to rain this morning, let’s hope it clears up for the rest of the day.
After a quick slimming breakfast 😡, Christine caught up with the ironing whilst I headed out to the super market with “Strict Instructions” to “JUST” buy something we can take to the beach for lunch; the way it came over it sounded like a 3-line whip!!!!
Mission accomplished and no repercussions 🤠 upon my return!! Now we headed to Half Moon Beach, a drive of about 47 minutes but only 17-miles; the roads are so bad!!!! Unfortunately the clouds are still hovering but hey, it’s still hot and we are on a mission.
After dodging all the pot holes and local drivers with minimal road sense, we dropped down into Half Moon Bay, and to our surprise there were lots of cars parked but the beach was empty. Adjacent to the beach is the “Beach Bum bar & Cafe” and no doubt, being lunch time, everyone was in there. We on the other hand got our picnic box out and found an outside table, it’s the diet you know!!!!
Parking by the beach, and After our feast 👹🥵👹🥵 we stepped two paces and was on the beach itself. A quick “strip” and we were in the sea, lovely but still the clouds were looking grim.
The beach, which is a couple of miles long was still empty, but that is good. We splashed about, I did some exercises, we enjoyed a swim in the waves (ha ha) but over-head the black clouds were gathering; we debated the direction of travel and finally decided they were coming our way. We know from experience that when it rains, it buckets down so out of the sea we came and gathered up our things, at which point it started to spit. Our car was no more than 25-meters away and by the time we got to the car, we were both drowned rats, probably wetter than we were in the sea!!
Thank goodness it was a hire car, with the best will in the world we could not get in dry!!!! Disappointed with no sun we headed back but we had our swim, that was the main thing.
Christine has decided “again” to sort dinner (diet!!), nothing wrong with this but if we went out! less work for her but obviously no good for our weight!!! This will all change tomorrow when Led and Sarah arrive!!! The good news it’s Friday night, we can have a proper drink, none of this Rum stuff🤣🤣.