Beach Hopping and Other "Adventures," Part 2

The second and third days of our weekend were a lot like the first.

Saturday morning we got up with plans to find Trunk Bay.  Chris ran into an acquaintance at the grocery store the night before who gave him “directions” that we were sure we could not follow, but would try anyway.  These “directions” went like this “turn left just beyond OneMart, turn right at the top of the mountain, left at the tree with a green string tied on it and look out for the road that is partially paved and partially dirt.”  With directions like this, we knew we may not actually get there, but it was early enough in the day that we were going to give it an honest try.  We did a decent job getting to the top of the mountain and found a road that looked promising.  It quickly turned to dirt and we could see a beautiful white sand beach way below.  Unfortunately, it quickly became so vertical, it made the “car elevator” look easy and we decided to turn back.  We put our spare tire into rotation the previous day and without a spare, we did not want to find ourselves stranded.  We decided that we are going to have to find someone that knows the proper way down, as the beach looks amazing. 

Not so good photo of the car "elevator."

Back at the top of the mountain, we decided that we would head back over to Lambert Beach Resort to check out the beach.  Shortly into that drive we came to a detour off of the main road and quickly found ourselves on another partially paved and partially dirt road.  Luckily, this one was not vertical and after a few errors, we found the right turn to take us down into Parham Town. 

When we finally arrived at Lambert we settled into our beach routine.  It was so nice to be the only ones using the beach.  The boys played in the surf, and Chris and I got in a good swim.  Of course, I took a lot of photos!

Left side of Lambert Beach

Playing in the Wake

We started getting hungry and decided to go over to Trellis Bay for a roti at the Roti Hut (by far the best roti we have had here!)  On our way out of Lambert our passenger side mirror was clipped off by another car, which resulted in this:



Yes, it's broken!



After lunch, we decided to call it a day.

Not happy to be sharing!

Sunday morning we decided to make it a full weekend at new (to us) beaches and drove over to Josiah’s Bay.  On our way, we encountered (yet another) road hazard.  This one, however, did not affect our route or damage our Jeep!

We set up camp on the far west side of the beach away from the bar and restaurant.  Josiah’s is known as a surfing beach, so we were pleasantly surprised to find a very calm bay to swim.  The boys enjoyed swimming in the calm water and playing with their sand toys on the beach.  With the exception of a small group of children on the other side of the beach, again we were  the only people using the beach.

Josiah's Bay

After a while we ate lunch and decided to go back to Lambert for the rest of the afternoon.  We found that the waves at Lambert were also calmer than the day before.  We set up on the opposite side of the beach as the day before and Chris quickly went to explore the rocks on the right side of us. 

The boys practiced swimming and we pretended to have a beach “party.”  Unfortunately, the afternoon was interrupted with a large group of tourists that came to the beach and got loud.  Luckily, we were having so much fun, it did not affect us and our “party.”  Chris returned from rock diving and helped Reilly practice swimming.  Shortly after, we called it a day (and weekend), packed up and went home.