Isle of Pines revisited

We said we'd be back and we were.


We spent a couple of days before Christmas there and it was heaven to be able to laze in the water in the heat that hit mid-December.


Staying at the Kou Bougny  was nice.  We were six and there were four of us all lined up in a row like little mummies on the top floor of the Case.  I thought we'd melt without airconditioning but the fan actually did the trick.  I think the nicest part of the Kou Bougny is its restaurant which is right on the beach.  The hotel's little odd because  the accommodation and the restaurant are separated by a road but you get used to that.


A cruise boat came in on the last day and we all had breakfast and took bets on how they were going to get all the cruise people off the boat and onto the island.  They came down on the lifeboats!  How cool is that.  Not being too keen on sharing that stunning beach with however many hundreds of people are on one of those cruise ships (I think this was the Pacific Dawn), we took off for the Natural Aquarium.


It was great to go back up to the Natural Aquarium.  Polly loved playing in the shallows and we all cracked up at a family who decided to don life jackets for the walk in...It's only 10 minutes by the way and we did it with mum and dad and the two kids!  The tide was pretty high but the water only came up to mid-thigh.  There were lots of little fish to keep us company as we waded over from Chez Regis.