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| Leaving Ile a Vache |
For my birthday I chose to visit Ile a Vache and have lunch
at Port Morgan. See this past blog about
the first trip and lunch at Abaka Bay.
We negotiated a boat for 4000 gds (about $80) round trip to take us to
the island – it left from the same little wharf area as the previous trip, east
of the main big wharf. Some men carried
us on their backs to a little wooden boat that took us out to the larger motorized
boat. We left shore around 9am and the
ride took about 45 – 60 minutes. They
dropped us off at Abaka Bay resort despite asking for Port Morgan. The Abaka staff descended on us hopeful for
business, then chided us for using their port when we were going to Port
Morgan. We said we’d come back for
drinks before we left.
To get to Port Morgan, a 30 minute easy walk, we cut through
the field where the two helicopter pads are located (behind the tall white
tower along the beach). Keep to the main
path which has solar street lights on it and it goes up and down a small hill,
then you have to cross on some logs to get through a muddy area that is flooded
during high tide. The path winds through
a colorful little village. We had to
double check the direction at an intersection in the village – head to the left
toward the coast, and the path comes out along the bay for Port Morgan. Follow the coast and main path through some
mangroves and you’ll pop out at a concrete path that leads to the resort.
We ordered lunch then swam in the hotel pool for about an
hour while waiting. The pool and
restaurant overlook the port, and the view is beautiful. The food menu doesn’t have many choices, and
if you want lobster or shrimp you have to order that morning so they can catch
and prepare it. We placed one order for
lambi complete – a $36US meal that comes with rice and a very good bean sauce
(saus pwa made with pwa kongo, pigeon pea), a salad of sliced tomatoes, onion,
and cucumber in a vinaigrette, fried breadfruit and plantain, and fresh warm
bread. We ordered two $10US simple meals
of just lambi. I am a vegetarian so
ordered French fries and sliced papaya and ate the sides of the complete
meal. Note that lambi is the mollusk
conch and is endangered! They are now catching
the small lambi that are not yet of reproductive age. We also had fresh orange juice.
We returned to Abaka Bay to swim at the beach, have some
drinks and check out the new restaurant over the water. Our boat which we arranged to pick us up at
4pm was still there, so we loaded up and headed back to Cayes. At Cayes the little boat was gone, and no one
wanted to get in the water to carry us to shore, so the captain got as close as
he could and we got out in the water next to a trash pile and a pig wallowing
in the surf.
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| Port Morgan menu |
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| Pool at Port Morgan |
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| Lambi complete meal |
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| New restaurant at Abaka Bay |
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