Saturday 11th January 2025
Beach number 4-today, Dickinson Bay Beach just past Sandals, a well guarded and expensive resort, but for a change we are heading there this morning. Over the past few days we have been watching Serries 2 of “Reacher” and we have two episodes left. With visitors over the next couple of weeks, we didn’t think we would get to finish them and as we were both awake very early, took the opportunity to,so followed by a slim breakfast.
This morning the sun is shining and hardly a cloud in the sky, a far cry from yesterday.
We were aware this is a very popular beach, especially with cruise ship passengers but it suited us to go there and though we arrived mid morning, most beach chairs were occupied. The sea on the other hand was devoid of swimmers, mainly due to the waves knocking some people over when they tried to enter; this was probably the final acts of yesterday’s bad weather.
We found a couple of sun beds, deposited our “stuff” and headed into the sea, yes access was tricky but when we got past the “nasty” bit we enjoyed the cool but warm water before negotiating the “getting-out” procedure, it was all about timing and good luck!!!! Whilst Christine was “lounging”, I headed long then beach only to spot a big “red flag” warning bathers not to go in, oops!!!!!
Back to base for lunch and wait for Lee and Sarah to arrive. Unfortunately their flight was over an hour late leaving Gatwick so stayed back until it was time to head to the airport.
They cleared immigration and customs and we met up and we were off back to base for a few “drinky poos” where I introduced Lee to Rum and Ting, a favourite in these parts😎😎
Tonight we had booked a table at C’n C, an old haunt of ours down in the old town by the docks. One of their redeeming features, apart from good food, was their wine stock from South Africa wines, white in particular. So at the appointed time we arrived only to be informed their stocks of South African wines was virtually non existent, they only had a few bottles of red left. Apparently the place had changed owners recently and their preference was for Italian wines!!! Once we had got over the shock we decided on their Chardonnay, tried a bottle and then re-ordered several, it was very nice😍😍. The food was also good so everything was “tip-top” and we had a great evening.
Eventually we headed back to base, had a couple of night caps before turning into bed. Tomorrow is “Shirley Heights” day, yeah!!!