Day 4 at Moombah Beach

March 3, 2009
This morning we put on sunblock and walked a mile and a half to the beach. At 9:00 a.m. it was already hot. I bought coffee at Dunkin' Donuts but it was too hot to drink it in the sun, so I carried it back to the condo and air-conditioned comfort. We ate breakfast of cereal and oranges - local oranges are so sweet, and seedless! We caught the resort shuttle back to the beach at 12:30. It's so easy to meet people staying here. We swapped stories about places we've eaten, things we've seen. Soon we were choosing two lounge chairs from among thousands on Moombah Beach. We were under a coconut tree and a little shielded from the sun, but soon were in the sea. Oh, the cool water felt so good! The floor of the Carribean is smooth and we could walk out quite a ways as it gradually gets deeper. The sand is white and mostly fine. No crashing waves! We watched the bathers and swimmers, and the "pirate ship" we are going to board on Thursday. We ate lunch at the Moombah Beach restaurant, right behind our lounge chairs. We noticed lots of small black birds. Not like the big crows we usually see at home! We walked along the beach and checked out a bunch of resorts right on the beach. We saw crawling lizards everywhere, from small to about 18 inches long. We've noticed accents and other languages in listening to tourists from Boston to NY to Europe. Haven't met anyone else from Seattle. We returned to our resort at 4:30 and joined the Welcome Party by the poolside: free drinks and snacks and music, and local vendors selling jewelry and art. We finished leftover pizza from lunch, wrote post cards, and dashed out in the rental car for Baskin Robbins ice cream before Molly's Skype call at 11:00 p.m. with TFNW colleagues in Seattle.