My second weekend here on the island, on Father's Day, I hiked to my first beach...Larsen's Bay. It's located on the south-west corner of the island and it's a beautiful, clean, sandy beach (which is actually quite rare here on the island). The Harty's (Julia, Clif, Ruth, Simon & Everett), LTM, Tim and I all made the trip. The hike starts along a little road that was covered with dead toads and flies (eewwww...gross). It comes to a steep ravine that is shaded by trees and vines and then opens back up into a field at the bottom. Although the road itself is hard to see (just 2 tire tracks that are extremely overgrown with grasses), there is an even smaller trail off that road that cuts off to the side. You follow that trail and it leads down to a little rock cliff that you climb down and then you're on your own secluded beach. We just hung out in the water all afternoon getting tossed around by the waves. There was some snorkling, the dogs played around (Ila--Clif & Julia's dog, and Lexington--Tim's dog both made the trip), and Ruth took a nap on the beach after having a huge branch come crashing down on her head when we stopped to "swing on the vines". Check out the Harty's blog for more on that story. We even saw a jellyfish! All in all, it was a great day. Here are some pictures from the hike...This is the "road"--notice the tire tracks:
Here's the steep ravine & also where Ruth got her "head injury":
I think this is where we turned off on the trail that cuts away to the beach:
This is the view of the beach when the trail ended:
We just had to climb down the lava rocks and we were there.
And finally, here is a view from the shore of the waves crashing into the cliffs:
Not a bad day.
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