Cabo Polonia - February 15th

Like when camping, these beach huts tend to force you into an early to bed, early to rise pattern (because of the light streaming in the semi-transparent roof).  So we get up early this morning at 8am, but we have to occupy ourselves as our hotel doesn’t serve breakfast until 9.30am.  I think they have to wait for deliveries from the ‘mainland’ as we have come to call the rest of the world outside our little unelectrified island.

So we walk up to the village again, and this time we decide to see if we can find the sea lions we were told are present behind the lighthouse.  And we do get to see them.  It’s quite fun watching them, especially as the males fight for dominance.  Dorota did go a bit mad taking loads of photos of them.  To calm down after this we also decide to go up the lighthouse itself to get a better view of the area.

All this is just a prelude to heading back to our hotel, which is in an empty part of the beach (that's it in the distance in this photo over the town taken from the lighthouse), and the rest of the day which is just eat (breakfast), beach, eat (lunch), beach, eat (dinner).  Well actually there was also a walk along the beach, this time instead of back to the village, away from the village, to a point where we are the only people on the beach for a kilometre.  It’s a tough life.  And the food in our hotel is pretty good given the conditions they have to cook it in.  There are only two problems with it, a lot of things get cancelled from the menu as they run out of ingredients quickly, and it takes a long time to get food delivered to the table, presumably because the kitchen is fairly small.

One other advantage of being in such splendid isolation is that in the evening the stars are amazing.  The Southern Hemisphere sky is so much more interesting than the Northern one.  The Milky Way is the main reason, stretching as a band across the sky.  My only problem is that I’ve forgotten almost everything about astronomy that I knew when I was younger, so I can’t identify more than a couple of the constellations.