Bath Tub

We have now taken a bus ride, snorkeled and have decided to rent a kayak to move easily around a few of the islands off the coast of where we are staying. The hotel says they rent them for full day, half day and three hours. So for ten bucks we rent a kayak for a half a day. Yup just half a day. We spent the morning getting up late, drinking really bad coffee, and staring at the ocean. It was beautiful and sunny out, the first time we have really had to put on sunblock since the other days were rainy and cloud covered. So around ten we packed up everything in plastic bags and headed out to pick up our kayak that the hotel said they would have ready for us.

This is what we saw.


We were so excited. We realized that we wouldn't get that wet and well more importantly most of our stuff would stay dry!!!!! Now it looks bigger in the picture. Seriously. Up close it got smaller but Doug and I looked at each other and said well we can do this and it has got to be easy to move around. So we threw our stuff in, climbed in, grabbed the paddles and try to go. Now the paddles were made of the heaviest wood they could find and the blade was the size of my hand. It was as though someone went out found a sapling and then tied a cement block to the end of it and said okay...GO! And go we did, well we tried because little did we know that the "boat" was actually claw foot bathtub that someone thought well...it holds water..I wonder if it would float. Well it did float but two minutes in it felt like we have never used our muscles before. We fought the tide, the wind and cross current to get around an island. And laughed most of the way on how we were fooled into thinking this would have been better than a kayak!

The view was beautiful and the sun was shining brightly and all in all it was great. We made it around the big island that we thought it would take us ten minutes to get to and got out and explored a beach that looked highly untouched, except for the guy that was walking along the beach with a machete in one had and a knife in another. Doug and I looked at each other and said...nice knowing you....the guy came upon us and said good morning and kept going....he was just looking for seafood we think.
Doug and I found the remnants of this guy!

Then off I went snorkeling while Doug succeeded in pushing the bath tub around the ocean chasing me as I looked at huge blue star fish, rainbow colored fish and all those weird creatures that live in the coral.
We did discover how to make the boat go faster.....yes it was amazing and now it was not paddle harder but....Doug paddled his little heart out while I was behind the boat "pushing" kicking with all my might with my fins on. When I got tired I would climb in the tub and take a break. We made it back to the hotel with just minutes to spare for our half a day. We ended up with just splashes of sun burn where we missed sunblock. All in all we had a great day and spent a good chunk of it laughing about the tub and it's cement paddles. Always an adventure with the two of us.