Internet and Phone Now Working!

Ironically, while I was writing the previous post, Batelco came out and fixed our Internet and phone! So now look forward to regular posts. The purpose of this blog is two fold: first, it provides a much more convenient way to post info about our rental cottages than our website calypsocalypso.com, though that remains a definitive source of information. However,  it is much easier to post additional information and images here. In fact, we will probably provide far more info than you really need, but at least it's available.
So let's start with the most important thing of all: the beach!

This image shows the eastern part of our beach. On the extreme right you can see our yellow 2-person kayak, which we normally place at the halfway mark. The 300 foot section that runs east of the kayak (shown here) is for the Morningstar renters. The other 300 foot section that runs west from the kayak (shown in the next image) is for SeaStar renters. You can just make out a white roof about halfway along the image: this is the main house at Island Breeze, which is our immediate neighbor to the east. Even further east (and not visible) are Island Breeze's 2 nice small rental cottages, which we also recommend. Although these cottages are more compact than ours, they are more modern and undoubtedly have more gizmos (e.g. cable TV etc). Our renters usually go more for reading books, listening to our big selection of classical music, or exploring our extensive tropical gardens. Of course the beach in front of the 2 properties is basically the same, and is usually completely empty!

This shows the western half of our beach. You can see the little driftwood cabana that belongs to SeaStar - Morningstar has its own. These cabanas provide shade. However, both these cabanas were washed away last year by Hurricane Irene (of which much more later). However, we will rebuild them as soon as we can find driftwood! Fortunately our houses survived with only very minor damage. Many other buildings in our neighborhood (Palmetto Point) fared far worse. Indeed, the house of our faithful gardener, Kevin, which lies directly under the famous Palmetto Point "Big Tree", still needs extensive repairs.