We walk our old morning route in reverse, going up as far as Home Sweet Home. We stop in, wondering if Juli is up, but there is NO ONE moving at HSH at 7 in the morning. Manda though, apparently feeling her mojo from porch time, wants to dive off the cliffs. Manda! The seas are rough this morning! Waves are crashing over the sea access deck!
We head back toward Mi Yard for some breakfast, walking up the lanes a little in the area where we would always run into Scar. No sign, in fact there aren’t many dogs at all in the area where we used to run into Scar. Walking up some of the lanes is pretty eye opening as well, you don’t have to go far up some of them to see the poor conditions many Jamaicans live under. Shrub hovels are right there in the brush if you look, we decide NOT to take a picture and head back toward West End Road.
Manda is a handful, running after everything. She wears me out and I need a break. I try to give her a stern talk but she just doesn’t seem to hear me.
And to prove it, as soon as we get settled in at Mi Yard for a little breakfast she is bolting for the beach across the road. Manda! What a handful!
We order some coffee and breakfast, Sweetie Pie gets a fruit plate and mango juice and I know I’m going to have saltfish dumplings. Sweetie Pie REALLY wants soursop juice here. It’s the one thing she told me I didn’t include in our last trip report, how much she loved the soursop juice at Mi Yard, but they’re out. Mrs. Mi Yard remembers me ordering a whole plate of dumplings back in February. “You really do like them!” she says. Ya, mon! Sweetie Pie grabs a few shots after we’re done as we wait for the Magic Bus. I point out the shot through the Mi Yard gate I tried to get last time. No fishermen yet this morning though…
I think this is a pretty spectacular shot…
She usually has a better eye for subject matter but I still like this one…
It’s a little after 8, the Magic bus should be here soon…
