I always like to include a few food shopping photos to show the island prices. Lemons for my ice tea in the morning
8 rolls of toilet paper
After errands we headed to the beach. Today we visited Francis, my favorite
Snorkeling was in order. We saw a huge turtle, but it was in quite deep water so the photos were not great. Maybe I will have a better one to share later in the trip. We did spot a moray eel
The moon jellies are back!
French angelfish
Porgy
We have a couple of fancier dinners planned the next couple of nights, so decided to go casual and just grab some stuff at the Beach Bar.
Menu
Sister's margarita
Tuna bites for my nephew, since he cannot have most of the appetizers here
Tuna down now
The first conch fritters of the trip (lots of conch but a little gummy for my taste)
Niece wanted the tuna poke nachos.
And the chicken fingers. She always gets them here. When we ate here when she was a little kid, she was upset that they were out of chicken fingers, and the cook went across the street and got some for the restaurant over there and cooked them for her. I guess it's a fond memory.
I had the mahi mahi sandwich
Sister and husband had mahi mahi tacos
and nephew had the beef tacos minus the chips because of his allergy
The Sahara dust is very thick here right now. It made the picture I took of the view look almost like a painting. The dust is bad for asthma, and makes it hotter. However, it also cuts down on the ability of tropical storms to form.
There's no dessert at Beach Bar, so we walked over to St. John Scoops for some soft serve ice cream
Power went out in town just after we got our ice creams. The islands announced that we are on rotating outages for the next few days. For whatever reason, the feeder that goes to the part of the island that my house is on is not included in the rotation schedule. I know we will be paying the piper eventually, but for now, the power is on. In addition to the usual inconveniences of the power being out, here you cannot run the water at all either. So, no showers, no toilet flushing, dish washing etc. It gets pretty frustrating after a while. The residents are understandably incredibly angry because this has been going on for months.
