Waking up this morning, looking out our window to a view of a clear blue sky meeting the clear blue ocean, with a few palm trees thrown in for good measure, well, you can’t beat that, can you?
Well, Grant is becoming a pro at driving on the left side of the road…it is trickier then you’d think, especially in parking lots and such!
Today we drove to an old sugar plantation, called the Whim plantation. We took a tour of the Great House. Mostly, the overseer lived here. Often the families of the owners stayed back in Europe, as there weren’t any good schools here in the Caribbean.
The sugar cane plantations lasted until the early 1900’s, largely due to the effect of the emancipation of slaves, which occurred here in the Caribbean in 1848.
After our tour, we decided to drive around the northwest portion of the island where the “rainforest” is located. It is not a true rain forest, but it is thick and jungle-y, full of old mahogany trees and kapok trees…it was quite beautiful. It is so interesting to see how different the island can be in different places.
We came back to our place in the early afternoon and went out to swim. Grant snorkeled a bit, but I just laid on a raft. We saw a horse swimming in the water! That was neat. Then, as I am standing there, (not on the raft at this point) I look down and this big ol’ manta ray goes swimming right by! AAAAH!!! I am a lot braver with my mask and snorkel let me tell you! But it was really cool.
We sat on beach chairs reading and watching the sunset, and then ran to K-mart to get a few more things…mosquito coils and paper towels. Now we’re back making pizza here for dinner!
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