Friday, April 19, 2019

Day 9 – No Kiteboarding, so off to Rum Point


The plan initially was to go out today on a fishing charter, but our captain cancelled due to “engine problems”. I think it was more to do with “I don’t want to go out on Good Friday problems”! Nothing we could do about it but plan for the next activity. Since the fishing was out, we headed down to the Wyndham resort just a mile down the road. White Sands Sports offers a kiteboarding class and we wanted to see if they had availability for LT today. Here again – no luck! They were fully booked. I had called the day prior late and they said that they still had some openings. Apparently between night and before opening, they booked out. Again, I think it was all the Good Friday deal.

Anna, Olivia and I ended up having breakfast at the resort, while LT played basketball. Breakfast was a brunch style and although it was good, it was sparse and mucho expensivo! Granted the food on the island has been expensive pretty much everywhere, this one took the cake for what it was. I ended up heading downstairs to go see Thomas, while the girls finished up there meal. While we waited for the ladies, LT and I tried our hand at table tennis. Young Schiffers is starting to get pretty good at the old game.

After breakfast we headed back to the house to pick up somethings and then headed out to Rum Point. LT and I wanted to try our luck at fishing the point, while Olivia wanted to get her hair braided. Mama wanted to go to Rum Point to do some people watching and hoped to listen to some live music. Everyone got what they wanted.


When we got to Rum Point, LT and I casted and casted. LT however was the only one that managed to wrangle in something on the line. Thomas managed to get three small barracudas to shore. The last one he caught ended up wiggling while he was trying to get the hard bait out and he ended up getting one of the treble hooks caught in his thumb. Not a pleasant feeling. A minute later and with the help of pliers, I pulled out the hook. He was not a happy camper.


Both of us called it quits on the fishing and head back to meet up with the girls. Olivia and Anna were sitting at the beach bar shack. We were greeted with smiles and Thomas was happy to sit and try to get over the pain of having a barb stuck in his hand. A mud slide later and young Schiffers was slowly starting to come back to life. Thomas, Olivia and I ate some of the local dishes they had at the Wreck Bar and Grill. The whole place was packed today. After the food and a few more drinks, we headed over to see LT get his hair braided. Olivia had gotten hers done while we went out fishing.

About 4pm we kicked from Rum Point and headed over to Kaibo for one last rendezvous. We had a few drinks there and goofed around on the beach before finally heading home around 6pm.






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