Limbe Beach, Part 1

There are so many reasons we love the beach...and the fresh fish, chips and fried plantains are just some of the many. This is our family's favorite vacation spot; we've made the best memories here over the years and it just keeps calling us back. If you come and visit, we'll take you there!

The black sand, from volcanic rock, is pretty great for making castles, especially drip castles.




We saw many people at the beach rubbing the black sand all over their bodies and then washing it off in the ocean. Supposedly, it's good for the skin. I tried it on my feet and it rubbed off all the callouses and made them soft and smooth.






Nandry collected our individual Jelly serving containers from breakfast and used them as forms to make bricks for sandcastles and a sand pyramid. I think we could have done something larger scale without the jelly containers, but it was still fun.





One of the highlights of the beach (as if the food, ocean, freshwater stream, playground, room with TV & A/C aren't enough) is horseback riding. When the horses aren't saddled up, they sometimes run and frolic along the water edge, it's a cool sight. The caretaker of the horses (in the yellow shirt) has been trying to convince Nathan that we need to buy one of his horses and take it back East with us to Bakaland. I'd love to do that, if not only for the shock factor of introducing an animal that the Baka have never seen before.