KC's Family: Crashboat Beach Edition

Friday, February 20th

After stopping to rent snorkel equipment we spent the day at Crashboat Beach.  Once we found a spot and set up camp, it was a beautiful, sunny, relaxing day!

The snorkelling equipment was used over by the pier, and there were lots of different fish to see.  The water was warm and calm for swimming, and we had some good conversations with other English speaking tourists.

Later in the afternoon, we saw the Pelican Man.  This guy trains pelicans (and uses food to bribe them) and walks along the beach letting the pelicans perch on people's arms.  He charges a small fee to take the pictures, he has a pretty good job!  It was amazing to see the pelicans follow him, listen to him, and flock to him.

After going home to clean up, we tried to go to Ola Lola's.  It was packed, and we had to come up with plan B.  We went to the Oceanfront restaurant.  They have a great view of the ocean, and we tried to sit outside.  But, then it started to rain and we had to go inside.   Good thing we did, because it turned into a downpour.  The waiters and staff kept running around trying to make sure the water didn't get into the building.  They had been planning a romantic dinner for two which had to be moved inside, so they were trying to recover from that too. (It rained almost everyday KC's family was here.  This is the wettest dry season ever!)

After serenading the people enjoying the romantic dinner this fellow serenaded KC's parents.  His singing was okay, but Jake says the entire evening could have come straight out of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.   

KC's favorite part was when our waiter asked if we wanted to have a coffee or hot chocolate to warm up on this cold night.  We laughed, and KC told him where her parents were visiting from.  He didn't seem to get it.  Then he came back and said his manager told him Minnesota can be around 5 degrees- and he understood why they didn't want hot chocolate.  It was about 75 degrees on this "cold" night!