15. Spring Bay (Liam)

I woke up very early that morning which was strange because on my normal holiday body clock by the time I'm awake it's time to got to bed, for the night three days later of course, so I got up and had a swim. After an hour or so I went upstairs and watched some TV (the same old american junk: mediocre TV such as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air followed by three consecutive days of monotonous stupid adverts aimed at even stupider people and made by people who are just so stupid that it surprises you that they don't fall down more! But by the way did you know that if you buy the easy maneuverable hovercruise you can also get a free collapsable grabber? And just for inquiring they will send you a free silent alarm clock! But never mind these brackets have been going on for far too long.)

Soon it was decided that we would have a lazy morning (swish!) and then we would go to the springs and continue through to the baths. (not so swish.) And I said that we would get side tracked at the springs and that it would be wiser to go through the baths first and then finish the day with spring bay. But noooo, not for the Hegarty family! We would do it the other way around and 'see how we feel from there on.'

So we went to the springs: a nice little beach just down the road it is in fact Jons favourite beach in the BVI. We went the day before, after buying dad's presents (for details see the 18th, the 21st and dad's facial expression.) So we went there I read a chapter of my book and then got into the water, which if you've been on holiday with me you'll know is an irreversible process, so I played around in the water. Dad came in showed me a few interesting fish one that had a nasty predatory head but with a body the size of a tadpole.

So anyway i soon decided that it would be cool to build a mound of sand that was large enough for it to stick out above the water and for me to sit on (this would require about a meter's height.) But sand being too fine would not withstand the tide so I began to build the mound with rocks from the sea.

What was interesting was that soon a group of fish started following me back and forth which was weird but I soon saw why: every time I shifted a rock these little fish would swoop down and eat whatever was hiding beneath the rock. And so I went back and forth, back and forth and guess what? Did we move through to the baths? Nope. Did we get sidetracked in exactly the way I said we would? Yes. And soon we had to leave because we were in danger of the restraunts closing and us having nowhere to eat.

So we went home undressed, washed, dressed quickly and sped off to a place called the Mine Shaft (going over a lot of speed-bumps fast resulting in a lot of sore heads) and had a blast. At the end of the night we went home, Mike and Dad argued about having gap years, I watched a little TV (see rant above) and then I went to bed.