17th April 2009 – Xpu-Ha Beach
We returned to Xpu-Ha this morning. After a quick trip to Walmart to get supplies for the BBQ and stock up on beer. Arrived early afternoon and the day was spend swimming, playing rounders and volleyball. I put up some hammocks in the hut whilst others pitched their tents. I’ve managed to start my next book “Reminance of the Cuban Revolution” by Che Guevara. Hoping to get some insite into Cuba before heading there in a week.
There is a Kite Surfing school on the beach and it looks really good fun. Problem is that its so expensive. The guy wanted 225 USD for 3 hour lesson. I’m definitely tempted to try it but I think I will wait till I get to Honduras. I’ll start planning the next trip around Belize, Guatamala and Honduras soon, but by speaking to Mike and Juan Carlos I now have some good ideas.
The beach at Xpu-Ha is suppose to be one of the top 10 most beautiful beaches in the world. You won’t get many arguments from me and I would love to return some day.
In the evening we had a BBQ on the beach. Kebabs with beef and vegetables, some steak and some hot dogs. Was pretty good, but then I would say that as I was cooking!
Two of the kite flying instructors (David from Mexico and Patrick from Vancouver) joined us for the BBQ and stayed for the drinking games. Ye-Ha. Its amazing to see the effect that two adonis like beach dudes have on the women! I guess its only natural to be slightly jealous of this but then maybe I should just stay at Xpu-Ha and get toned! Or maybe I should have spent more time in the gym and less time design stadia - yeah! Dream on Martin and keep moving!
Unfortunately there wasn’t enough hammocks to go round and I wasn’t going to pitch another tent just for me so I just took a camping mat and my sleeping bag and slept on the beach. Took a while to get of to sleep but had pretty good night. I was plenty warm enough with the one season bag, just the noise of the ocean and a sky full of stars to drop of to.