westbaylodge - Fresh fruits and veggies anyone?

Well, we are now the first and only fruit and veggie stand in West Bay! West End only has the little trucks that come by and park when they feel like it. We used to have a truck that came to our driveway on Tuesday/Friday afternoons. He was becoming very unreliable and I was spending a lot of time each week trying to make sure that we always had fresh fruit for breakfast and the veggies we need. Vazeillie (our office manager) found a lady in San Pedro Sula that will go and pick out all of the nicest fruit/veggies and ship them to us 2 times a week for a good price. We just go early in the morning on Tuesday/Friday and pick them up. This is better than the fruit truck selling here. Milos bought a hand made Cayuco, which is like a wooden canoe and we use that to display everything. It really looks like an old fashion stand on the side of our office. We have papaya, pineapple, watermelon, melon, tomato, peppers, potatoes, onions, banana, apples, oranges etc. We are getting a lot of locals from West Bay and many condo renters coming by and telling us how happy they are and thanking us for having really good quality fresh produce to buy out here. Just for my convenience and for our guests with kitchens it makes sense. Murry from Capt Van’s has ordered a fresh fruit bowl for lunch every day. Maybe I should make them and deliver lunches that are healthy to workers at the mall.

The dry season is finally here. January was pretty dry here for the last ½ of the month. Now there aren’t many clouds in the sky during the day and around 90’, then maybe just a rain shower at night. The sky has been the most beautiful color of blue and the ocean water is warming up.

We are still full here until about March 28, then a few openings and already April and May are filling up. We are having the nicest guests here and most are staying 1-2 weeks and 1 couple just retired and stayed 1 month. It is so good to really get to know our guests and most feel like part of our family when they leave.

The pool has finally been started. The municipal wouldn’t let us start digging until the rainy season was over. Last week we started digging and laying out the design. It is going to be beautiful. It will have a flat shallow end for lying in the water then slope down toward the office with built in seating around the edges. The big rocks in the middle of the property will become a waterfall into the pool. Milos says that he hopes to have it done in 5-6 weeks. YEA!!

After we made breakfast this morning and did the dishes I decided to take a walk on the beach. I don’t do this very often and not since my sister left a couple of weeks ago. I started walking and walked all the way to West End. It was so beautiful. There weren’t many people on the beach and from Las Rocas to West End only a few. I stopped and watch some men paint an old wooden fishing boat that was turning out very nice, I watched a big gray heron in knee deep water catching his breakfast, 2 little local boys (maybe 5 years old) playing in the ocean in just their underwear and just laughing, some big sailboats just waving back and forth, a flock of butterflies floated by, the water was like glass this morning and when I went out onto a dock it was very clear. I sat on the end of the dock for a little while and just looked at our island and remembered why we fell in love with it here. It is truly the most beautiful place we have ever been. I walked back to West Bay, it takes about 45 minutes if you walk straight back and felt so much peace. We get so busy here and live so much in the moment that we forget why we live here. I asked about 10 of our friends when I got back when the last time they went to the beach and just went for a long walk. No one could remember and said that they are just too busy. I think I should remind them to “go to the beach sometimes”.

Have a great day,
Celeste