Getting the award for the worst shower on the planet, The Blue Horizon is a hotel across the street from the gorgeous public access beach near Rockley.
Sunday afternoon the beach was busier than other beaches we’d been on (although, all the beaches we’d been on all week were nearly completely vacant of human beings) with people in beach chairs under umbrellas, youngsters out in the waves on boogie boards, and others walking the beach.
There’s a nice boardwalk along the coast that’s maybe a mile right along the beach. Just before the boardwalk, there was a tiny sandman; three balls of sand stacked up on top of one another, maybe six or eight inches tall, and written in the sand, “Canadians Were Here”.
The two questions the locals ask the tourists are 1) Is this your first time on the island? and 2) Are you from Canada? The tourists are mainly from England and Canada. The four people in the first floor apartment were Scots and the four next door were English. I met two women at the bus stop from Canada. One day, while walking on the beach, I met a group of six people from the US, originally from northern Ohio now living in Virginia. And, the two guys renting the place next to us were Michigan State students.
It was cooler Sunday, yet still swimsuit weather, and when we inquired about snorkeling gear, the woman at the reception desk at The Blue Horizon said “It’s a bit nippy today”. I just about burst out laughing. These people don’t know “nippy”.