Sun, Sea and Stewed Conch!

We took advantage of a sunny day at the beginning of the week and headed out to Pirate's Cove. 

There was a great view of Bonefish Point in the distance:

After hiking around for a while, I was pretty pleased when I finally found the ladder! I think Mara was beginning to wonder whether I knew where I was going!

Mara went down first to check it out...

and this was the view that we found at the bottom!

The water was amazing!! We headed to Malcolm's Road Beach next, and had planned to get some swimming in but when arrived the waves looked something like this:

and the red flag was up which meant no swimming for us, a bit different to the last time we were there, but we enjoyed some good shell collecting and took the obligatory shot at the little Tiki hut:

After our beach adventures, we tried out this amazing Deli called 'Top of the Cove'.  We had the best 'meatball hoagie' which is basically like a subway and some of the best cookies ever...yes Dad if you're reading this I do 'live to eat', what's wrong with that??!

We had decided even before Mara arrived that if we were going to take her out to eat when she came that we couldn't miss out on taking her to Da Conch Shack so that is where we headed:

Here we are rocking the polka dots, that wasn't even planned, but I'm loving the co-ordination! Mara went for the coconut conch stew and was impressed with her first taste of conch! 

By and I are old conch pro's these days so I went for the cracked conch and By got the conch curry.  There's nothing like a bit of conch accompanied by some Bob Marley, if only mom had been there to join us - she's a big Bob Marley fan you know! When I quizzed her on some of his songs this week she sang 'come woman, come man'...I think it was her version of 'No Woman, No Cry'!!!!

What a tourist! Mara had to pose with the boat full of conch's out the front of the restaurant..

and that night there was a lunar eclipse at 2.30am that we woke up for.  The moon went a pretty crazy shade of red...By sort of captured it, if a little blurry, but 2 minutes later the clouds covered the sky and so we all went back to bed! 

Check back soon for the hundreds of pictures we took over at North and Middle Caicos yesterday! and for more Island adventures in the Sun! 

Malcolm's Road Beach

On Saturday we ventured to the other side of the Island, literally.  I've added a little map of Providenciales below to show you exactly! We live in Leeward, marked by the red star on the right hand side of the map and we travelled to Malcolm's Road Beach, marked by the red star on the left hand side. This journey took us a whole 45 minutes! and I'm pretty sure that's the longest journey you can take by car on Provo! 

It didn't help that half of the journey was along dirt roads like the one below.  It sure was one bumpy ride!  We were really driving through the middle of nowhere...

but it was all worth it when we arrived to find this:

It was basically our own private beach for the day! At one end of this remote beach is a resort called The Amanyara and it basically consists of individual oceanside villas you can stay in for around £1000 a night.  As you can gather by the price tag, it's not for the average Joe, and is infact a bit of a mecca for Celebs.  Just 3 weeks ago Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (of Twilight fame) were staying there...can you imagine if we had decided to take our day trip 3 weeks ago! How crazy would it have been to just bump into Rob while splashing around in the sea! haha

It was actually quite a rocky beach so we were able to do some 'rock climbing' and explore around which was fun.

By was rather taken with this rock that fits perfectly within another rock! I liked the way it resembled a heart myself!

and no post about the Beach is complete without the obligatory conch shot!

I was rather pleased to discover I had colour co-ordinated my toenails with the sea!

There was this cool hut at the entrance to the beach and I thought if we took a picture of us sitting under it you'd be able to see the sea in the background, but we couldn't quite get the camera high enough to accomplish that shot! 

So here I am sitting at the end of the walkway with the ocean view I was after!  What a blissful way to spend a Saturday!