Day 3- Saturday February 7th

Elesa had seen this place selling Acai bowls when we had been driving earlier, and we decided to stop there for breakfast Saturday morning before heading to our Surf lesson. An Acai bowl is a delicious smoothie, topped with granola and fresh fruit, and then drizzled with honey. It was delicious!

We found the surf hut and they offered to move our lesson to later in the day when they thought the waves would be better. So we drove down the road to "white sand beach" to read for a few hours. Sadly it too had disappeared. They should maybe add that "little" piece of information in the travel brochures :)













At 11, we met our instructor and the one other man joining our group and learnt the basics on land before heading to the water. I thought I was in pretty good shape, but paddling is hard and you really don't get very far. They were pretty concerned with the current pulling us towards the rocks so set up a buoy so we had a safe spot to rest and wait our turn. There were quite a few other people in the same area, and the water was pretty shallow (he advised us to fall flat in a belly flop so we didn't hit our heads on the coral underneath). Surfing was lots of fun! We were in a little rotation with our instructor, we'd paddle over to him, he'd find us a wave, instruct us on the intensity of our paddling and when we still weren't going fast enough he'd give us a little shove to catch the wave.

I'd definitely surf again, but it would have to be with an instructor. Even Elesa who has done a lot of surfing insisted on an instructor. She said each area is so different that she felt more comfortable going with someone more familiar with current etc, before attempting to surf on her own. Also, with the island shoreline so rocky, it looked pretty scary to surf anywhere close to the rocks.

After the lesson we headed over to a little beach by the cover we were surfing in and read our books. We had a hot dog from a food truck that was the weirdest colour (matching Elesa's legs) but it tasted so good when you were hungry.






























When we had enough of the sun we headed back to the hotel to clean up, and we spent some time shopping for our families and home and then to dinner at a Thai Restaurant. It was delicious!










We could not finish our day there. We hit up the hotel hot tub, and then ran to target for a Ben and Jerry's treat before bed. When Brett and I were in Hawaii we ate so much ice cream. We had to try all the Ben and Jerry's flavours you couldn't get in Canada.