It's a long way to the Top!

Wed 27^th August, 2014.

First full day at complete leisure on the island. No alarm set and as long as we get to breakfast before 10.30 we’ll get fed! We take a bit of time reviewing the underwater video from yesterday, and it pays to know your camera inside out before you have to use it. Unfortunately, Trevor was still figuring out how to use it, but he did manage to get some good footage, and like he says, it’s better than if he didn’t have one!

The plan is to tackle the summit today so we’ll go over to the store and get some lunch to take with us. It’s a 2.5 hour return walk and the views are said to be very good. Eddie told us that on a clear day we’ll be able to see the Sunlover pontoon.

Whatever expletives you know – insert them here!!! Many and often!! Fluffy Duck! What a mammoth effort to get to the summit! But the views were amazing and nearly made it worthwhile. I don’t think my legs will thank me tomorrow either. AND there was no easy way down. On the upside though, if we ever come back, and I’m fairly sure we will, we don’t have to do it again!! We think we saw the pontoon and took some photos on full zoom, we’ll have to look at them on a computer screen to know if we were right.

A quick swim in the pool when we got back down and had sufficiently recovered, showered and ready for dinner, via Foxy’s Happy Hour. 

So much for a day of complete leisure! 

P.S. For entrée we shared a dish the chef had named “Portabello Compression”, a layered stack of portabellos and goat’s curd with a red pepper fondue. It was probably the most amazing thing I have ever eaten! I even asked Aline to tell the chef how impressed I was with it, and I don’t usually go to those measures!