Woke up at 8:30 and got on my face out on the deck for my
prayer time. Nothing quite so amazing as
praising God with the expanse of His glorious creation - the ocean - stretching out before you
while a flock of tiny, bright yellow birds swarm a dish of sugar water and a brown thrushie bird zips back and forth feeding her nest full of chirping babies over head.
From the BIG to the little, God's creation is AMAZING.
Did my Beth Moore Bible study (catching up on the Psalms of Ascent).
Dad (D) & I woke up and had coffee & breakfast then packed up for the beach and dabbled on our laptops for a little bit. We got gas then headed to our daily trip to Starfish to get a sandwich to take (we split one every day and bring that along with some sodas and chips and maybe a candy). We did a little research to find out about ferries over to Virgin Gorda (fat virgin) or Jost van Dyke (pronounced "Yoast"van dyke) - which are both British Virgin Islands or BVI (whereas we are on the US virgin islands , or USVI). We can do a self-guided all day trip to one of these via ferry or we can do more of an excursion type tour and hit 4 islands in one day. Sounds like this might be the best way to go.
We ventured to another of the 'secret beaches' today... Gibney. Parking is up on the road by a steel gate.
We hiked down and there was a police officer parked at the bottom with his scout troop. We hiked around through the water to a more secluded part of the beach and were all by ourselves (except for a dog we named "Daisy" for the day, because she reminded us of Bijou but we didn't want to call her "Jouey", so we gave her a name of her own).
An older woman with long gray hair, a floppy orange hat, and a large gap between her front 2 teeth climbed out of the water and we were able to ask her some questions about the island. (She currently lives in Maine, but had lived on the island for 20 years.) She was back for 3 weeks for a 60th birthday party being held that very day in the Oppenheimer property (Oppenheimer was apparently called the "father of the atomic bomb" and he bought SOME of the property from the Gibneys back in the 1950's).
Anyhow, we were alone on the beach from about 11:30-2:30 when a group of about 12 women, no men, cam and flopped down 15 feet from us and then 20 minutes later a couple and their Yorkshire terrier cam and parked 15 feet from us on the other side. Oh well, we had secluded paradise for a FEW hours. Meanwhile the sounds of music floated through the air from the party and the ocean ebbed and flowed and pelicans dive-bombed the water and it was a fine day.
We left Gibney at about 4:30 and headed 'home' where we showered in the shower with open views to the south and west and overhead (open-air skylights with screens)... feels almost like showering outdoors.
We've eaten in 3 nights and out 1 night.
I think tonight might be another 'out night.
We have also watched a DVD (rented from home before we left) every night.
(Yesterday, in the rain, we watched two.)
Ahhhh... vacation rhythm... Just limin' mon.
