Tuesday 28th January 2025
We awoke to a nice sunny morning so decided to make the most of the day and take a picnic to the beach, we may even invest in a couple of beach loungers with a big “brolly”, but first breakfast.
After some discussion we decided to head to “Jolly Beach”, not a beach either of us can remember going to before, but who knows!!! This beach is just to the southern entrance to Jolly Harbour so en route stopped by our favourite tourist lady to report back on our day’s sailing.
As we entered her office and before we could say “hello”; quick as a flash she asked, “how was it???” At this point we sat down and gave her our feed-back; I think she is going to have another word with Captain Simon!!! After some jolly “banter”, we left and headed to the h
Due to all the buildings being demolished in preparation for the new, 21st century Jolly Harbour project, the car park is now a few 100-meters from the beach, however they have built a temporary broadleaf walk to get there, which was good.
This broad walk opens up onto a rather large white sandy, fairly busy beach, though not in the same league as Long Bay beach last Saturday. There is the “Jolly Beach Resort” behind most of this beach with its permanent, pretty sun-shades and sun beds a fair way back from the waters edge which allows and probably annoys the resort’s guests, as anyone can move their portable sun beds in front, here in Antigua the beaches are open to everyone!!! Talking of sun beds, today we invested in a couple with a sunshade close to the water. Whilst Christine was settling in, I headed back to the car to get our ice box with our picnic and “beers” in, we are not rushing back today.
Today the weather is fairly settled, mild wind, a sprinkling of cloud, no rain, in fact the perfect afternoon to be on the beach; a good $15 well spent, though they did ask for $20 at first!!!
We enjoyed our lunch, spent a long time in the sea and walked the length of the beach before heading back to the car around 1700hrs; the picnic box was much lighter now as well!!!
The drive back was busy as it was their rush hour, so our 30-minute journey took over an hour, the charm of this island.
To finish off this excellent day we should have gone out to dinner but this morning Christine got a pork fillet out of the freezer so going “out”, went “out” of the window!!!
After another Culinary masterpiece out of this antiquated kitchen, which we enjoyed on our verandah in the cooler evening air, we cleared up. Now we got the cribbage out as tonight I have something to prove, after the two previous disastrous evenings I need to “up” my game, I did lose but by fine margins, so I was reasonably happy as we had five tight games; my turn tomorrow🤞🤞🤞