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The weather has taken a turn for the worse and settled in for a very miserable, windy, cold and wet two days. The girls didn’t want to leave the warm and cosy Hotel Charisi, so Ben and I set on an adventure to explore as much as we could come rain hail or shine!

Unfortunately I don’t have very many photo’s to detail the exploration as we spent the day mostly on scooters. I did take a couple of movies holding the camera with on hand and driving with the other, however these will have to wait until I return to Australia to be youtube-a-rized.   

Have a guess which way is correct with this sign?

If you said right, you’d be wrong! It does take you to a ‘look out’ to see Super Paradise beach but doesn’t actually take you to the beach itself. No matter we just wanted to see what it looked like, but it was quite fun to see other tourists drive by, stop, scratch their heads and then roll the dice to decide which way they’d drive.

Feral cats are everywhere on the island. I saw one during lunch walk past with a lizard tail wiggling widely out of its mouth. The locals seem to love these feral cats which does worry me somewhat. If this were Australia it would be shotgun season to try and protect the local environment. I guess in some way the cats are kind of ‘native’ if you consider they’ve probably been here for over 1000 or so years like humans have. But it’s a bit strange none-the-less.

Ben and I travelled around 90 kilometers and when you consider the island’s edges is 119 kilometers we saw quite a bit of it! At the top of the island there is a beach that is kind of a basin for all wash up, and with not a soul around we decided to explore as best we can from the comfort of our scooter seats.

You’ll have to wait for various antics on youtube of us testing the bikes off-road capabilities when I get back to the land of Oz.

Unfortunately the weather was so bad and the water so choppy that the day we were due to head out to our next island our boat was cancelled. This was a pain, but Ben and I were ready to brave the wind and rain to bring the girls back pizza and watch some movies on my laptop.

Again the hotel we stayed at was very homey and accommodating handing us plates, cutlery, and cups every time we had a meal in the open area there. It was great to relax and recharge our batteries as the wind howled outside bashing on the windows.

Of course I would have preferred sun-shine and less wind, but we did had an awesome time anyhow!