Last Wednesday we embarked on the journey to the beach. It takes about two and a half hours to get to Grand Gossier. So all twelve of us piled into the Excursion and went. The road there is quite washed out and rough. Someday maybe I'll go to the beach on a moto and it will speed this whole driving process up by an hour or more. The whole way you can see the ocean and so it taunts you....”I'm farther than you think!” Finally we enter the town of Grand Gossier and go right by the cemetery, with approximately 43 goats climbing all over the tombs. So now is where Matt's love for off roading comes in handy. The road was totally overgrown. Where there once was a road, there no longer is. And so Alice and the girls thought this would be a good time to burst our eardrums with their screams. Ok so exaggeration, but was very humorous. So we made the road down to the beach and found the most lovely spot on earth possibly. Although who am I to say....God created so many Beautiful things for us. The beach doesn't have much sand mostly just smooth small pebbles. White limestone cliffs tower hundreds of feet above us. And the aqua blue water, just calm and still..no waves today. Another thing I love is that there is no people..none at all! You just don't see that in Haiti. Absolutely empty. Oh wait, here comes three men in a little motor boat up to the shore. They wanted to take us on a ride around the shoreline and back....and also wanted us to pay for the gas both ways. So it was decided not to go.. that was sad tho because I thought it would be great fun. But swimming was epic! So easy to float and suddenly I brought my head out of the water and there I was so far from shore. Then some of the girls wanted to go out there. The word -shark- was mentioned to much for my liking. But the only living creature besides fish that we saw was jellyfish! Once when we were way out in the ocean, there was a few 7 up bottles floating on the water. So we inspected them with goggles and there was a long rope with a trap of some sort sitting on the ocean floor. Soon a very Haitian looking boat all painted bright and Bon Dye (God) written on the side. The man was paddling toward us and just stopped and watched all twelve Americans be crazy people in the water. We seemed to be entertainment for him and we were all happy to provide that service. The hurricane changed the scenery some but it washed some cool shells up so we walked up and down the shore, grabbing whatever we could. Most places just looked like absolute paradise!!! made my heart so happy. And then back over the bushes, through the cemetery with approximately 43 goats on the tombs, over the rough road, with a stop in Thoit for supper, and then on to the lovely Oriani home.