We wake up each morning to a "cooled down" am temp of about 80 degrees. During the days it's been 100+ degrees. Going in the ocean or pool water, hardly cools one off.
Temps in there are in the 80's. We have breakfast outside on a lawn on the way to the beach,under an umbrella, fortunately! Christmas carols were being played the last two mornings- yeaaaaa! Every establishment has some sort of Chrismtas decorations up. The food has been fantastic and so inexpensive. Fresh seafood is everywhere: calamari, red snapper, kingfish, pomfret(a small flat fish, I had one last night, whole and on the grill- delicious!), lobster, tiger prawns (huge shrimp) and regular prawns abound on every menu. There is a cute elderly gentleman selling fresh fruit right near our hotel. We go to him each day for bananas, avocados and oranges. Catherine got a huge coconut the other day, he hacked off the top with a huge machete, gave her a long straw and she drank the milk, I tasted and it was wonderful. Four bananas, 1 avocado, a coconut and 4 mini limes cost Rps 80, just a little over a dollar. A hundred rupees equals $2.20, think I had it wrong in a previous post. The beach is lined with fishing boats and each morning the men go out very early to fish. I saw two men bring in a kite fish (think we call them sting rays!) the other morning. The boats remind me of the old pointers from the 1950's and '60's at Keewaydin and Ojibway. These are very similar, only higher sides and incredibly heavy. Takes about 10 men to haul it over log rollers on to the beach. They can hold lots of people and very sea worthy! think we need to have a resurgence of the pointers on the lake!! Sandy