We headed out to explore a bit today. The first stop was Atlantis Beach, which is kiteboarder territory. The island has confined certain sports to certain parts of the island in order to appease the scuba divers who for some reason don’t enjoy being beheaded by a kiteboard as they surface.
Atlantis is one of the nicer beaches here, and has sand. All of the sand on the island is imported, mostly by the resorts, who like to cover their part of the shoreline with it. The shoreline, however, prefers its natural state, shedding the sand to the current. The current, in turn, deposits the sand at other beaches as it sees fit. As a result there are several imported sand beaches that aren’t anywhere near the resorts. The kiteboarding faction used that to their advantage and set up digs at Atlantis. Without the sand, the beach is hard limestone called "iron shore," which sometimes also looks like an alligator. It is horrible on bare feet.
On any given day, there are tents, a food truck, kiteboards to rent/take lessons on, and people doing tricks up and down the beach
We walked up the beach a bit to a place called Fisherman’s Hut.
Near the hut there was a pelican fishing, flying along with the kites. I like to think he was showing them what flying was really like.
The Pelican was probably offended by the kites not having any manners.
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