The sun was pounding down, cause the sand to burn our feet, we loaded up on the sun screen before jumping in the water. There was a large rock wall at this beach with lots of bright colourful fish, so the snorkelling was really good, we spent around 2 hours there just snorkelling, swimming and laying in the sun!
After we had been at the beach for a while, Harry and I organised a taxi to another beach on the island. the cost we were told should have been a standard rate of $4, the guy drove there like a maniac, speeding and cutting corners, once arriving the guy demanded we pay him $24, he was a huge black crazy guy that stood about 7 ft tall. We said to him not a chance it's meant to be $4, he started to loose his mind, by this stage it was obvious he was on drugs, he was spitting and his eyes were rolling around in his head from the anger. I had my camera around my neck and the monster grabbed it and started trying to rip it away from me, i screamed at Harry "just give him the fucking money" it wasn't worth arguing once he had ahold of my camera, Harry continued to try and bargain him down, so again i yelled at Harry, i pushed the guy yelling at him to let go of my camera. Harry eventually gave the money and we walked away. Afterwards i felt a little weak and shakey, thank god that has been the only encounter i have had so i'm lucky! I was so angry about it tho..
We spent a while at that beach, having some lunch and swimming around for a while, it was a nice little chill out spot, the weather was cooking hot, I'm actually looking forward to getting a little further south so the temps drop a little, i'm sick of sweating everyday, it's basically been super hot for the full six months i have been away!!
Later that evening when i was on the ship, i went to the top deck to lay on the day beds, listening to my ipod i noticed a huge twister sucking up water from the ocean way in the distance everyone stood up and watched it for a couple of minutes, i said to the American couple next to me " how long do you think that will last " before they could even answer i was running to the room to get my camera, it was at least 5 mins there and back. By the time i arrived back up top the twister had gone, i have never seen anything like it, i managed to get a shot of the storm it was in but totally missed the twister. I was so disappointed, it would have made for an epic photo. It also happened to be a full moon too.
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