David is cured! We woke up early and went for a walk along the “hip strip” where our hotel was located. Most of the little shops weren’t even open yet, but that was ok because our goal was for breakfast at Burger King. Apparently, McDonlad’s didn’t try to claim Jamaica because Burger Kings were all we saw on the island. I hadn’t been to a Burger King in a long time, but their breakfast menu, although limited, was just what we were looking for. We ordered to go and decided to keep walking, this time hoping to find a store that sold waterproof sun block. When we first arrived in Kingston we bought the only sun block they had at the grocery store and I didn’t realize that it wasn’t waterproof – that’s not going to work for a redhead on the beach!
We walked the span of the hip strip and finally found the sun block we wanted to buy. It was priced at $15 and David casually said “that’s ridiculous” and the guy sold it to us for $10. We also say the Bobsled Café. Just in case you ever need to watch Cool Runnings while you’re in Jamaica, the Bobsled Café plays it on a loop for all of its customers. Then we grabbed our bathing suits and headed to the beach.
There isn’t as much beach space (sandy shores) as most people who have ever been to Florida would expect from the beaches in Jamaica. Plus, you have to pay to go to them. We were staying at Doctor’s Cave Beach Hotel, so we thought we would get to go to the beach for free, but apparently they are two separate entities. So we went to Doctor’s Cave beach anyway – the nicest beach in Montego Bay – and really enjoyed it.
It was a really nice beach too. The sand was really clean and the water was beautiful.
We spent a good amount of time snorkeling, just enough time, in fact, to allow my sun block to slowly fade away in the water. Anyway, the snorkeling was a lot better than I was expecting. There were a bunch of reefy areas that had a bunch of fish! We saw all kinds of different colored and shaped fish, as well as some rays (don’t know what kind), and little crabs, and coral, conch shells that were moving and the paths they left behind, a huge school of little tiny fish, and a fish that was very defensive of its home! It tried to bite my mask. Seriously, it swam right up to my face as if to say “Hey! This is my home big thing with legs that is trying to swim! Go away!” I’ll admit, I backed away from him! Too bad I didn’t have an underwater camera.
After snorkeling we sat in the sun reading until we got too hot that we couldn’t stand it anymore. Then we had to get in the water again. I realized how red I was getting so once we got out of the water again I moved my towel under a tree and sat there instead.
Then we got hungry for lunch and went to the Chilito’s again so David could try it. After lunch we decided to spend some time out of the sun. Then we went back to the beach and walked down one pier that had some crabs walking around on it. Apparently crabs aren’t really held back by gravity because they walked underneath the pier, upside down because they were afraid of us.
Our intention was to stay at the beach until sunset, but it was cloudy and we wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway. Instead, we went to dinner. We went to a place recommended to us by Charlie called The Pelican. It was good, we had Conch Soup (similar to clam chowder), Sweet & Sour Chicken (David), and Steamed Fish (Susan) that I was hoping would be as good as Lloyd’s from the other day, but it wasn’t. :o( We also had a milkshake! Yum.
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