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| No safety lines! |
We were halfway through our morning walk when we heard
someone call out to us. But the voice was coming from above us. We peered into
the palm trees, the sun blinding us and making it difficult to see, and there
was a man clinging to the tree trunk and harvesting the coconuts. He said, “I
am the coconut man!” He
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| The Coconut Man |
posed for us while we took his picture, then we thanked
him and continued on our walk. Looping back around, we found him back on the
ground. He told us that the coconuts are harvested before they start naturally
falling and hitting people, and he takes the coconuts into town to sell. We
declined his offer to purchase some and thanked him again and finished our
walk.
Looking for something to do before beach time, we decided to
return to Magens Bay and check the beach out. Always trying to find a different
route and roads, we took some roads we hadn’t been on and eventually
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| Beautiful Magens Bay |
made our
way to the beach. We had to pay to use the beach ($4 pp + $2 to park), but we
thought the clean restrooms, outdoor showers, lifeguards, and plenty of picnic
tables to sit on made it worth the price.
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| Soooooo relaxing |
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| Staying in the swim zone |
These excellent facilities also make
this beach popular with the cruise lines for shore excursions, and there is a
continual loading and unloading of taxis. We shared a picnic table with an
Illinois couple who were on an "oldies" cruise. They were excited because tonight
the 60’s group, The Guess Who, was playing. We dipped into the cerulean and
sapphire waters which we found to be warm and relaxing. Finishing our swim, it
was time for our cruise line friends to return to their ship.
Jane took a long
walk to the end of the beach while Capt. Larry had a couple of beers and people
watched.
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| Having too much fun! |
It was amusing to watch the lifeguards try to enforce the swim zone
perimeter, since many swimmers ventured outside the designated area. After Jane
returned, we sat for another hour and decided to return to our beach for the
rest of the afternoon and happy hour. It was a great relaxing day.
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| Lots of big boats |
The next morning we were up and enjoying our walk, a route
that always takes us through the Sapphire Beach Marina and the adjacent condo
complexes, Sapphire Village and Sapphire Beach Condominiums West. We always
enjoy our walk through the marina as it is primarily filled with larger,
ocean-going boats. Boats come and go regularly and it is always
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| Island cacti |
interesting to follow the home ports which indicate that many of the boats have come a great
distance.
We had absolutely nothing planned for today, so it was going
to be a day of beach time and relaxing. Jane wanted to do some snorkeling and
hit the water in the early afternoon.
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| Jane gets to snorkel |
There are coral reefs at our beach that
extend almost completely to the shoreline, so one doesn’t have to swim very far
from shore to view the coral.
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| Capt. Lar's feet watch the ocean |
However, many snorkelers swim quite far from
shore and few use any type of flotation device. Jane stayed close in and had a
great time. We spent the rest of the afternoon sitting on the beach and
reading. After happy hour we enjoyed pasta with a marinara meat sauce listened
to music the rest of the evening.
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| Panorama of Sapphire Bay |
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