Morne Rouge Beach

Well, this post will serve whet the appetite of Jason's mom, sister and brother, as well as my brother who will be visiting in a short while. The first picture is taken of Grand Anse beach from the Flamboyant hotel where they will be staying. The building at the bottom of the picture is the dining facilities that are located on the beach. We will have to walk up and down the hillside to get to our hotel rooms from the beach, but it isn't far, and the additional height of the buildings means a really nice view.

Also, from the hotel, it is just a short walk to the next bay over, the much quieter and rustic Morne Rouge beach. This beach must have weathered Hurricane Ivan better, because there are a lot more shade trees available to lounge under. The sand isn't as nice as the sand on Grand Anse, and there are a lot more bits of shell and dead coral underfoot when you enter the water, but we enjoyed the quiet setting.






The only thing that sometimes marred the peace and quiet was this boat in the picture below. The Rhum Runner...well I'm sure you can imagine what the people on this boat are up to. That's right, hordes of drunken tourists spewed onto the beach from this boat. The thing that caught Jason and I off guard was the general age of these rowdies. For some reason, we had imagined that it would be the youngish tourists that would participate in this drunken voyage, but to our astonishment the average age seemed to be in their sixties. I had to laugh at this group of tourists in the water, giggling like kids, waving their swimsuits in the air! It seemed pretty harmless, but we were glad when they piled back onto the boat and moved on.