That is something I shouldn’t have done today. I found myself out on a long walk to see wherever I could get to at the other end of the beach. It went for quite a ways, winding up and over a headland of sorts, and then onto another beach, anon anon…

First I found the waterfalls, cutting back up into the hills father back than I was willing to climb with only sandals on, but the nice thing about it was the little wading pool people had made where it met the beach. Just a few well placed rocks, and the result was a pool about 20 ft in diameter and deep enough to float in. Why was this good?

Well, when you go into the ocean, there is nothing better than being able to rinse the salt off of you, and then find a log to sit on and air dry. There was a little community of folks there and one guy had taken it upon himself to set up all these balanced rocks like what you would see in the arctic. Only the weather was better.

On from there, across another headland and onto the next beach. On this one was the entrance to a biological reserve. The sign said “Do Not Enter”, so I didn’t. I walked up another 50 ft or so and sat on a log to chill out. That was when I noticed I was surrounded by monkeys in the trees, all looking at me with their curious faces. At first I just sort of ignored them, but as they got closer (there were about 10 of them that I could see), I thought it better not to have my back to them. I found another log facing away from the beach, grabbed a beating stick just in case (these things have teeth, y’know), and sat and watched the show for…who knows how long. Acrobatic little buggers.

From there, there was more, but it was too hot, I am still trying to stay out of the sun for a bit, and I had already done quite a bit of walking. So I just went back the way I came. I will be sure to go back and try to get some pictures of all those monkeys. I didn’t try touching them, but they came quite close to me as they were looking for food.

By the way, this is a much better internet connection. I found this just after being told that the whole penninsula was dial-up. NNNNGGGGG. Rong. Won’t be back there.