28 May 2006

Had a Sunday off and decided I would take the bus to the plantation area being as I didn't have much else to do. There are several old buildings that are away from the main plantation and are under the canopie of he coconut trees. these are the ones I decided I wanted to take pictures of today. They were a bit more interesting to me than the more typical buildings. Also due to the lack of sun on them lichens and mosses had grown over much of there concrete walls which gave them rich shades of greens, browns, yellows, and a patchwork of other colors. The pictures I have below really don't seem to do them justice as I wisent able to capture the vibrancy of the buildings. I still think they turned out ok though. One of my coworkers had told me that there was a nice walk along one of the beaches from one building to another. I think that they were probably right that it is a nice walk during low tide, but when the tide comes up on you, you tend to run out of beach to walk on. so you either walk along in water waist deep as there is to much vegetation on the beach, or you have to forge your own trail though the woods. I chose the former and waded through about a half mile of ocean before I reached an area where the beach was wide enough to walk on again. The water was plenty warm though, and it was still rather enjoyable if not somewhat of a slower of a walk. There is also a wrecked WWII airplane near the plantation, as in the over two years that I have been here I hadn't seen it yet I figured it was time I do so.

This sign is in reference to the wrecked airplane above.