We had committed ourselves to lunch on the island with the boat crew who helped us moor yesterday. We decided to go in the dinghy to check out the turtle reserve, it’s a glorious white beach that has been roped off from boats. Sadly the sea was so rough that I didn’t want to go in, but Rowan had a quick recce, he saw no turtles and the water visibility was not great so we headed back to PolePole. We have seen so many turtles everywhere which is such good news, and here we have them bobbing up all around the boat all the time. We swum ashore and decided to walk over the island to snorkel off the beach on the other side, but the same thing, it was too churned up. We decided to walk up the path to the top of the hill, we got quite far but our bare feet brought us to a halt. We swum back to the boat and took the dinghy in with our shoes for lunch. These guys are working so hard with so few tourists, but they seem to be so cheerful and accommodating with us their only guests. You can see from the setup they normally cater for a lot more people. It was a delicious fish lunch, an enormous amount of food that we had to keep shooing the birds away from. Even the old iguana obviously has a field day with tourist scraps!. We walked off lunch by walking to the top of the hill with our shoes on this time, stunning views were our reward. It is a tiny island and nobody sleeps on it, so by sunset it was all blissfully quiet as we watched huge menacing dark clouds roll in. It got pretty blowy and I was very pleased to be secured to a mooring buoy.
Beach cordoned off for the turtles
Back for lunch on Petit Bateau
Birds waiting to pounce at our food
Cheeky birds after our lunch
Magnificent jowly chap!
The view from the top with only one boat in the Cays
Petit Tabac, we hope to anchor there one night when the wind dies down
Dramatic skies and brilliant colour water
Huge rain storm approaching
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