Day 11 Monday

Day 11 Monday

Our last day and I have decided to fritter it away by the pool. One is freeform and has a shallow end and is lovely and warm according to other guests. We can see this one from our room.

The view from our room

The other pool is larger, rectangular and deep all the way round but it is surrounded by lush lawns and gardens, a cafe and the beach.

The view from the big pool

All the luxury details like  sunbeds with mattresses and towels, huge parasols, waiters gliding by offering drinks, snacks ( with chilli in them I expect). White egrets were drinking at the pool in the morning and monitor lizards came by to drink in the afternoon. I wandered on to the beach and it was just the most beautiful sight, just like a picture postcard. There were so many different corals and shells and the sea is a lovely shade of blue green.

The beach in front of the hotel. Me paddling in the warm Indian Ocean

The corals

At lunchtime Ronnie returned from his trip. He had left at 5.15 am for a whale watching excursion. He saw about 20 blue whales, dolphins and other species and luckily he managed to get an iconic photo of the whale's tail fin disappearing into the waves. 

In no time at all it was dinner time. We have been very lucky with our fellow travellers. We are all in roughly in the same age band and keen on travel. No one was late or forgot to turn up or lost anything. Everyone was good company and it was a pleasure to share a large table in the evening to chat about the day's events but tonight was another early night as our luggage had to be outside our room by 6.45am 😱