Sarah and John had to leave on Wednesday morning, so we were down to just 2 couples. We relaxed by the pool some more and then Gary, Heidi and Charlie and I took a sunset caterman cruise to Rum Point for dinner. The views were amazing and we filled up on lots of food and drinks.
Thursday morning, we met Gary and Heidi for brunch across the street at a place called Eats Cafe, then they had to catch their flight home. Charlie and I decided to go visit the Turtle Farm and Hell at the North part of 7-mile beach. These are 2 of the popular tourist attractions on the island. The turtle farm is called Boatswain's Beach - it's kind of like an aquatic zoo where they raise giant turtles. The big thing is you get to pet and pick up the turtles. Hell is basically this small little section of the island with lots of black rocks where nothing grows. It is has a small little gift shop where you can buy post-cards and have them post-marked from Hell. We sent one to my parents and apparently the mail service is really slow coming from Hell...took about 15 days to arrive to Ohio.
(the guy that owns the property called Hell puts these little wooden figures of the devil in the rocks)
We got to the turtle farm with only about an hour to look around before it closed, but it was enough time to pick up all the turtles we could.
After the turtle farm, we walked around some shops near our hotel and went to dinner at Hemingways, another great restaurant with nice sunset views. We were a little "fished out", so Katie got the BBQ pork and Charlie got the duck. Both were great - so there's another one we'd recommend!
Friday morning we squeezed in our last few hours at the pool and then packed up and headed to the airport. We arrived back in Newark, New Jersey to record-breaking heat on the East Coast. It was a great trip with 2 really fun couples and we all agreed we would love to go back again.
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