A visit to Lovers/Divorced beach

The beach in front of our resort was nice enough, but the beaches you could get to by water taxi--Lover's Beach and Divorced Beach--were where the snorkling and spectacular views of the Pacific were.  So, one afternoon, we hopped on a water taxi and headed to Lover's Beach.  As soon as we got off the boat, we were accosted by an American beach bum type, who tried to convince us to buy beer, tamales, umbrellas, and to have our hair put in cornrows.  Somehow we resisted.  Kate, Andy, Cora and Dad were with us and I will be adding their pictures as soon as I get them downloaded to my computer!

The water was pretty cold,  but the snorkling was great, with beautiful colorful fish being drawn to the surface by water taxi drivers throwing tortilla chips into the water.  The glass bottomed boats made things a little dodgy and at some point the cruise ships brought all their people in to snorkle, so it got a little crowded, but it was still fun. Not as good as when we went snorkling in St. Lucia, but still pretty.

Millie stayed back with Mom and Dad, but Evie came with us and was very relieved when we came back on shore again, despite the fact that her Dad is huge dork and her Aunt Kate is a lot of fun. There was even a little Evie and Cora sized ocean pool for her to play in, but she was having none of it since decided that the ocean was her number one enemy:

                                      

Evie running to meet me when I got out of the water:

In addition to American Beach Bums, there were also thousands of ground squirrels, who were eager to get to the lunch that we packed.  We entertained ourselves with seeing how close we could get them to come to us and actually saw one take off with most of an apple, which was pretty impressive considering that they are the size if chipmunks.

Evie agreed to take a walk down the beach with us as long as we didn't touch the water.  So off we went.  She was still mad at Jim for forcing her to go into the water and wash huge amounts of sand off of her...hence the grumpy face in these pictures.

There were spectacular rock formations and caves, but unfortunately the caves had been used as bathrooms, so they were way too smelly and full of trash to go inside of.

We headed through these rocks to get to Divorced Beach, but we never actually made it because we needed to get back and relieve Kate and Andy, who were guarding all of our stuff (from beach bums and ground squirrels).  When I went a few days later, it was pretty amazing.  The waves and current are so strong that swimming is not allowed there, although there were people surf kayaking.  Someone on the whale watching trip said that she had seen whales from that beach.  It's a beautiful beach...especially when there aren't a million people around.

                            Somewhat cheered up and posing on an Evie sized rock:

Mutual adoration on Lover's Beach.

And then we hopped onto our water taxi and headed back to our other love, Millie.