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Monday was our last full day on the island, so we got up early and headed out to catch the ferry over to Pinel Island, since we hadn’t done that yet. We found the ferry to Pinel around 8:45 (this was a chore, since there aren’t any signs at the ferry telling you that you’ve found it… we ended up driving around the town of Cul de Sac before finally asking a postal worker, who told us where it was — we’d already been there and thought we were in the wrong place). We asked the men at the dock when the ferry was leaving for Pinel and the ferry man said “Well, it’s gonna be a slow day, so maybe not ’till 9:30, maybe later.”

The wife and I looked at each other and decided to head to Orient Beach. We spent the better part of the morning at Orient Beach, enjoying the sun and the surf. The term ‘clothing optional beach’ is true. We saw a few topless women, and a few fully nude women… most of them were semi-attractive, but the majority of them weren’t at all attractive. The fun part of the day was watching the wife react to the completely naked men walking down the beach… I got a kick out of her reaction… most of the time it was “ewe!”

You see, just because people can get naked on a beach doesn’t mean you want them to. Who wants to see 250 pound, 5′8″ men naked? And how about 55 year old European women who really don’t shave any part of their body anymore and have had gravity and poorly built bras working against them their whole life?

Ugh… or should I say Ugly…

After spending 3 hours baking in the sun (yes, my legs were quite burnt… should’ve put sun screen on the legs) we ate lunch at Kakao’s again, and then headed to Phillipsburg to shop…

We shopped for the rest of the day, trying to stay out of the sun, and picking up souveniers and gifts for friends back home.

Around 5:00 we retired to our villa to rest and clean up, and then we went to dinner at a place close to our villa on Pelican Key. The meal was so-so, but the service was horrible. Our waitress didn’t know what the specials were, and took a good long while between her visits to our table to check on us. We left as quickly as we could and walked back to our villa. (A little too much wine and rum punch).

We went to bed early, and savorerd the last night of sleep on the island.