A room with a view

I am not really a morning person but waking up to this view from our room at D'Lagoon positively makes me want to jump out of bed and go swimming. I had my heart set on staying in the tree house they have but it was booked for the period we were there, so we had to 'settle' for a room in their long house instead. The place had oodles of charm, it was a long wooden hut with simple rooms named after tropical fish and an electric fan on the ceiling. We stayed in the Clown Fish room and then moved to the Shark room for this view. The electricity went out all the time so we were cloaked in darkness for most of the night listening to the storms outside.

It always rained in the evening, and we were unlucky enough to be caught in a really big storm while we were in another part of the island trying to get a boat back. Taxi boats stop operating after 7pm and at that time we were still having dinner at Long Beach, but we were assured by the manager that we would be able to get a taxi boat back to D'Lagoon. We took our time with dinner hoping that the rain would ease up enough for us to make the 5 minutes boat ride back. It didn't, but we had to leave anyway because it was getting pretty dark. So, in the middle of torrential downpour, the sky lighting up with lightning, we walked 20m into the sea (well, we were wet anyway) and got into the speedboat, by this stage we were completely drenched, and it was one of the most freezing rides I have ever taken. And one of the best.

We didnt really care about being wet, it was just a great moment, all the wind, all the rain, it was nature as it should be.