Flip-flop Weather : Feb. 23

We are in the middle of dry season, but this is the wettest dry season they've had in years.

So on our speedboat tour, we got rained on. A lot. We were already in our swimsuits, so it wasn't bad until we were blasting through the waves and the rain was like pellets. Then it was a little uncomfortable and chilly.

We started at the mangrove trees at Bon Accord wetlands with a German couple, a single Trini woman, a U.S. couple and their ten-year-old, an older English couple, and two women from Barbados (but who live in New York).

We worked our way along the northern coast up to Castara. I mentioned the snorkeling in another post. During one of the sun breaks, we had the chance to snorkel or swim to a beach and take a walk. Alisa, feeling seasick, and I, feeling discouraged, took a stroll on the idyllic beach.

Of course, once we left, it began to spit on us again. We had rum punch to lift our spirits. And those spirits stayed lifted through our barbecue lunch and straight out to the Nylon Pool.

The Nylon Pool is a ground-down coral reef about 500 meters from the nearest shoreline, but the water is only four feet deep, which makes for a great middle-of-the-ocean club.

At least at the Nylon Pool we saw a rainbow to make up for all of the rain. But, there it was again, the patter of the scattered showers. Which brought us right back to where we started.