Vacation - Part 3

My plan was to get up early on Thursday and hit Trunk Bay before it got busy (and if you go early, you don't have to pay). When we woke up, it was raining...so we decided to sleep a little longer to see if it would clear up. When we got up, it was still raining, so we packed up our things and put on our suits and decided to head towards the beaches any how. We started at Hawksnest, the closest beach to town on the North Shore Road. It was raining, but not too hard, so we grabbed our chairs and our snorkels and set up camp. We headed out on the reefs and saw our very first turtle! Of course, we didn't have our camera with us at the time since it wasn't very clear and we thought we wouldn't see much, so I headed back to shore to get the camera while Brad chased the turtle. By the time I made it back with the camera, Brad had lost the turtle...as it turns out, this was just the first of many turtles we would see, with some more shy than others. The rain picked up so we decided to pack up and head down the road. We stopped at Cinnamon Bay, where it was still raining, so we left everything in the car except for our snorkels and headed down to the beach. There is a little island just off shore here so we snorkeled around the island in the rain. Lots to see everywhere we went...saw pretty much all of the fish on our little identification card :) We packed up and kept driving, figuring the rain was a good time to do some exploring. Since it was pouring, we parked where we could see the water and ate our lunch in the car. We were near some ruins of a sugar plantation, so we figured we were already this wet, we might as well get out and walk around. The camera was waterproof, so a little rain couldn't stop us :) By this time, it was midafternoon and I was ready to be dry, so we headed back for some warm showers, dry clothes, and some reading where the pages don't get wet. For dinner, we walked around town trying to decide what sounded good and ended up getting a pizza and some ice cream and eating in front of the tv...maybe not gourmet, but it was tasty and relaxing.