INDIA HAVELOCK ANDAMAN ISLANDS

FROM THE DIARY

Yesterday we woke up and went for breakfast at our local 'world class restaurant' and decided that we would move out of our camp. The owner had come back and fired the chef after hearing what happened and it turns out that the chefs young girl was not his daughter, but his prostitute, and that the chef has also another wife on the main island Port Blair! what a mad story!. So anyway we had had enough of all the drama and the chaos so we packed up and Maurice drove to ECO Villa to book a room.

He came back and picked me and my stuff up, and I have the best boyfriend in the world! We are staying in a BEATUIFUL camp, with a much more open sea view, closer and so gorgeous, good food in the restaurant, a DVD player with all the recent movies, nice staff and our hut is just divine.

Two levels,

Total bliss,

Hot water,

Huge open window in the bedroom upstairs,

massive bed,

Fridge!

exactly 10 steps from door step onto beach!

This afternoon I started drawing the view from our window, but after around 30 mins, the storm picked up again (it started out as a really calm and warm morning and we thought that the storm had passed) and it was so wild, that everything got soaked in our bedroom.

Luckily that everything that got wet was just the floor and fittings, the bed is too far away and we had the sense to keep all our belongings downstairs! the palm trees that we were able to see from the window landed on the porch, spoiling my picture, because of that I hav'nt drawn them in!

After that wild storm, it continued to rain during the whole night but not as drastically and Maurice was able to sleep in the hammock that we had placed in front of the window. The ment that I had the whole of the bed to myself, safely tucked up in bed with the mosquito net securly around me.

We found out this morning that it was a cyclone that had passed over us yesterday (that was what probably came into the hut!) and it was on the cyclone scale of three, one being the worst.

Many of our lot went home today, they all went for dinner last night again, but we were just too nice and cozy in our hut to go out but we met them all at the jetty to say goódbye. Saron was one of them, which I was quite sad about, lovely girl and I wasnt expecting her to leave.

Last night I went back to our old camp and she was the last one there. She had been told by the owner that she had to leave tommorow (today now) as he was closing the camp beacuse he had no staff and there was another cyclone on its way and this time a much bigger one. He also told her that we had all left the island beacuse of this, and she was like..."no, they moved camps because yours sucks"! but basically he just lied again, because he didnt want to admit that he needed more staff on the camp and doing it all om his own!.

So she told me that she would probably move camp to our place, but then today, she deciede just to go back to Port Blair as by the time the weather did clear up she would have to lave anyway so would still not be able to finnish off her diving.

We are not too sure wether to leave tomorrow or not. Its raining again and another thunder strom earlier. Have heard from other people too that there may be another cyclone coming. Possibly coming on monday when we fly off Port Blair on tuesday.

Kind of think we should go just in case.

Would give us time to look round PB.

But we love our hut! and feel really nice and relaxed, dont wanna move!

There are only 6 of us in this camp now, we are like the last men standing!

I have loved drwaing our view from the hut, but no matter how we stay here, I dont think it will ever be finished......oh actually thats a good excuse for staying here forever. I cant colour sea, sand, sun and sky very well so I guess it may end up quite a mess!

One of the mornings we awoke to a beautiful day (but not for long, so we took a romantic walk from one end of the island to the other, it only took us around half an hour but it was lovely, and so calm!

THANK YOU HAVELOCK!