I’m sitting on a log on the beach drinking my coffee and its 8 am. The suns nice and warming and there’s a gentle breeze to help wipe away last nights sleep. The birds in nearby shrubs are chatting amongst themselves and the waves are crumbling or intermittently crashing in front of me.
I still check in with myself now and again to confirm that this definitely is now my reality and yes apparently it is. Yeah!
I always arrive at each new destination with the very loose plan to stay two or three days. I’m now into day six here at Montego Resort in Xai-Xai. Town is about 15 kms away and getting here to the resort is along a sand road for the last 3-4 kms of that. (Normal car is fine, no 4×4 required) It’s fairly remote which definitely adds to its charm for me.
I spend my days with at least one walk along the beach which stretches for miles in either direction.
One morning I saw the tracks of snorkeling fins disappearing into the water and by the time I tuned and headed back along the beach the snorkeler had returned from the depths. He was a local fisherman and as we “chewed the fat” I checked out his catch. He’d managed to bring in four decent sized crayfish and a small fish off the reef. His tools were a spear, knife and a rope to tie the catch together, oh and of course goggles and fins.
The rest of my days I spend sitting on the big deck that looks out over the Indian Ocean, mostly on my laptop when not gazing out at the awesome view. The day can vanish in a twinkling this way. I keep in contact with the rest of the world going on without me ie friends and family but I also work. The working takes on different forms; helping a friend build his website, writing for and developing this website, searching for virtual assistant work online and when I’m fortunate enough, actually doing some paid work online.
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