A trip to Rat Island!!!

This past weekend we took an adventure to a place called Rat Island! Supposedly, it was called Rat Island because there was a legend about buried treasure on the island, and they called it Rat Island so that no one would want to go there! Fortunately, there are no rats on the island that I saw!

This is the view from the docks. . .

We boarded the boat around 10:00, and began the hour long boat ride!

Do you see the tiny island right in between the two peninsulas? 

That's Rat Island!

The view from the boat was absolutely amazing!!!

We saw a bunch of fishermen on the way there. . .

WOW.

I love that you can see the perfect reflection of the mountains in the still water. . .

Surprisingly, there were only a few houses along the edge of the water. . .

Gorgeous. Just plain gorgeous.

The boat ride was so beautiful, I actually almost ran my camera dead, before we even got there!

Here's Rat Island, about a half hour to go!

Closer and closer!

Here we are at last!

Every Tuesday, tourists come to Rat Island, so every Monday, people come and rake up all the driftwood and trash off the beach! Unfortunately for us, we came on a Saturday, so there was some trash. But it was still BEAUTIFUL.

The whole time we were there, fishermen were constantly rowing up to us with fresh caught lobster, crab, and fish. We didn't have a cooler to take any of it back with us, so we had to turn them down.

One guy that came up to us was literally skin-and-bones. We hated to turn him down, since obviously he was very poor. When we told him we had no way of taking them back with us, he said he would cook them for us right there on the beach. So we bought a crab and some fish from him!

The crab was HUGE.

We found a pretty purple fish, which we gave to him to cook up.

He literally started a fire, and laid the seafood across the sticks.

No pots, no tools, no nothing.

Surprisingly, it was awesome!

I love the colors of the Caribbean fish! (Even if they are burning on a fire!)

 Yum, Yum!

We even had a little crab come and join us for some lunch!

The beach was littered with conch shells. . .

Along with a couple sea buns. . .

After a long day,  I think we all enjoyed the beautiful boat ride home.

Thanks so much for reading my blog!

See ya next time!