Around the Island in 4 Hours
The surf was still pretty strong on our side of the island today so the plan for the dives was to get bussed over to the other side and do two with another picnic lunch. A bunch of us weren't feelin' that too much so decided to drive around the island a bit to see what there was to see.
To complicate matters I had had a pretty rough night, thinking I'd have more room I tried out the larger bed sleeping diagonally. I woke up some time in the middle of the night with major back pains and had to move to the small bed. Ever since getting here I haven't had a good night's sleep, I always wake up 4 or 5 times every night and never feel rested in the morning. I'm not sure if it's the bed, the weird sounds the air conditioner makes or what but either way it is not pleasant. Today I was feeling really groggy and a bit nauseous, possibly from stuffing myself with food last night and then not getting enough sleep. And my back was killing me.
We drove down to West End first which is kind of the big town on the island. There's one main sand road that runs through it which goes along the beach and is barely wide enough for two cars making it difficult to navigate when people park on the side of the street.
We didn't really drive ALL over the island, we stated around the west side but drove around to where the other folks were diving because a couple wanted to get picked up after their first dive. After taking pictures of Russ and Joe sun bathing on the beach of trash (which was wrong on many levels and sad and depressing as well).
We had lunch at a cute little place called Rudy's. The service was good but extremely slow by U.S. standards but we didn't care much. They had awesome fresh fruit smoothy, I got a coconut one, and really great rice and beans.
Unfortunately by that time I was feeling especially groggy and nauseous and couldn't wait to get back to the resort to take a nap. I don't know how much the nap helped or how long I really slept since there are very few time pieces around (which is nice). I still feel like crap and have been drinking cups of hot herbal tea trying to flush my system. I really hope this feeling clears up tomorrow, it would suck to feel like this the rest of the trip and make the plane ride back especially miserable.
To complicate matters I had had a pretty rough night, thinking I'd have more room I tried out the larger bed sleeping diagonally. I woke up some time in the middle of the night with major back pains and had to move to the small bed. Ever since getting here I haven't had a good night's sleep, I always wake up 4 or 5 times every night and never feel rested in the morning. I'm not sure if it's the bed, the weird sounds the air conditioner makes or what but either way it is not pleasant. Today I was feeling really groggy and a bit nauseous, possibly from stuffing myself with food last night and then not getting enough sleep. And my back was killing me.
We drove down to West End first which is kind of the big town on the island. There's one main sand road that runs through it which goes along the beach and is barely wide enough for two cars making it difficult to navigate when people park on the side of the street.
We didn't really drive ALL over the island, we stated around the west side but drove around to where the other folks were diving because a couple wanted to get picked up after their first dive. After taking pictures of Russ and Joe sun bathing on the beach of trash (which was wrong on many levels and sad and depressing as well).
We had lunch at a cute little place called Rudy's. The service was good but extremely slow by U.S. standards but we didn't care much. They had awesome fresh fruit smoothy, I got a coconut one, and really great rice and beans.
Unfortunately by that time I was feeling especially groggy and nauseous and couldn't wait to get back to the resort to take a nap. I don't know how much the nap helped or how long I really slept since there are very few time pieces around (which is nice). I still feel like crap and have been drinking cups of hot herbal tea trying to flush my system. I really hope this feeling clears up tomorrow, it would suck to feel like this the rest of the trip and make the plane ride back especially miserable.