Rain

We almost repeated what we did yesterday. Reading, relaxing, browsing through shops... The shops and restaurants are all along the edge of the cliff. It was great to sit having some chai and enjoying the ocean breeze in the early afternoon. It was another very hot day today.

We climbed down to the beach and the water was full of waves and current again. The kids love it, and would have us stay in the deeper water with them all afternoon, if they had their way. They had fun along the water’s edge too though.

We sat under a clear blue sky, but a threatening cloud lingered in the distance. It slowly rolled in and gave us a bit of cloud cover which was nice, but then the clouds got darker and the lifeguards noticed that way up high in the sky a funnel cloud had formed, and out on the distant horizon you could see spray on the water where it had touched down! They didn’t seem too worried about it, but it was enough to send us scampering up the stairs.

As we packed up it began to rain. Big, fat drops of rain had us soaked by the time we reached the hotel. It was pretty warm and other than a brief sprinkle in Cambodia at the end of December, we hadn’t seen rain since early November so it was actually a welcome sight. It poured for about an hour, but it has already let up and the air is fresh and cooler.

CM