Montrouis - Moulin sur Mer beach resort

I am up early this morning for some bird watching in and around the hotel grounds.

Yellow Faced Grassquit

Hispaniolan Woodpecker

Palmchat

Hispaniolan Woodpecker

White Necked Crow

Bananaquit

American Kestrel

Grey Kingbird

The hotel also has domestic ducks and geese on its ponds; as well as a pigeon loft.

Breakfast

Lots of lovely fresh mango, and French toast with bacon - one of my favourite breakfasts!

Montrouis Beach

Apart from a conch shell salesman, and a sunbed stacker, we have the beach to ourselves this morning.

It is blisteringly hot and suddenly my tummy doesn't feel good at all. In fact, it is so sudden that I don't make it back to the bathroom on time – a most unpleasant experience.

You'll be glad to know that there are no photos of my little "accident".

Lunch

Today is Sunday, so lunch is a buffet.

Chicken curry, national rice, fried plantains, creamed corn and tomato salad

A delightfully tart passionfruit mousse

Rain? What rain?

The forecast for this weekend (and beyond) has consistently showed rain, rain and more rain, plus the odd thunder shower. There is certainly no sign of that this afternoon, the sea is sparkling in the sunshine.

We sit for a while just gazing out to sea and those mesmerizing sparkles of sunshine dancing across the water like little luminous fairies. Life is good, until my tummy tells me that the lunch is an unwelcome guest and is about to be evicted, so we retire to the cool room. Next door is a lovely local family who are here for the weekend with their small child. I am unconcerned when I hear hear the key being turned in the connecting door as it is surely locked from both sides; but before I have had the chance to say “I'd better put some clothes on”, the girl and her father are in our room. I don't know who is most shocked: the kid or her dad! For the rest of their stay he avoids all eye contact with me.

I guess that is my cue to get dressed and head out to wait for the sunset.

There are a few more people down at the beach this afternoon; both in and out of the water.

Tonight's sunset is not a patch on yesterday's, but the 'Bushwacker' cocktail more than makes up for it: Khalua, Amaretto, Baileys, cream and ice cream. Heaven in a glass!

What the evening sky lacks in terms of colour, intensity and clouds, it more than makes up for in a passing lightning storm.

Dinner

On the menu tonight is langoustine thermador – one of my favourite dishes. It certainly lives up to expectations.

Thank you to Jacqui of Voyages Lumiere for yet another day here in Haiti.