Day 6 - The "little" Knip & Playa Lagun

Day 6 (8/11/23)

Beach day!

We spend the morning at the “little Knip” (Playa Kenepa). We set off early so we could get a good spot on the beach. At 9:15 we are almost alone at the small Knip and have a free choice of sun loungers and umbrellas. The bay is not large (hence the “small” Knip) and sanitary facilities are limited to a Dixie toilet on the street. At 9:30 a huge school bus rolls into the parking lot. At the other end of the bay, around 50 students and their supervisors/teachers are now milling about, playing beach games, doing exercises (?) and going swimming. I would have liked to have had this kind of lesson at school 😊

We snorkel along the bay along the rocks, but similar to Cas Abao, there isn't really anything to see here. Sand and crystal clear turquoise water! But it's just great for swimming and chilling out (even if Sohnemann is missing the swimming platform again...).

We stay until 11:30, then we are attacked by a horde of bees. Apparently a drink can in our bag has leaked and is now attracting bees (wherever the beasts come from). They sit everywhere - on and in the bag, on the lounger, on and under the umbrella...

We try to wash out the towel and shirt, which have got drink residue, in the sea, but that doesn't bother the beasts. So pack everything up quickly and get away!

We stop briefly at the big Knip, but decide to continue. We are hungry and would like to go to a restaurant.

We drive to Playa Lagun and decide on the nice bar/restaurant “Discover Lagun” ( https://www.discover-lagun.com/ ), where we opt for vegetarian curry, chicken nuggets and 2 “local” dishes with the illustrious names “Frikandel” and “Kroket” (both meat) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/19eQGuISItltt6To_YfNL6DYIKUa9eAqm/view?pli=1). There's also frozen strawberry smoothie and lime juice. Delicious 😉

After dinner we walk to the beach at Playa Lagun and invest a few NAFs in loungers without umbrellas (there are no umbrellas anyway), because there is enough shade under the trees. At first glance the beach doesn't look as inviting as the beaches we've visited so far, but we still want to do some snorkeling. It is recommended to snorkel along the rocks to the end of the bay and then swim across the bay to the other side and snorkel back there. In addition to corals and the familiar fish, this time I see several moray eels! That's cool! So it was definitely worth it!

From the lounger we watch several green iguanas walking around us. There is a great panoramic view from the restaurant above the bay. A steep stone staircase leads up to the cliff to the Baha Beach Bar Restaurant. Here, particularly large iguana specimens lie lazily in the sun and are hardly irritated by visitors. They run between your feet, under the tables, chairs and on the paths. You shouldn’t be afraid of the “iguanas” – one flew right over my feet as I entered the bar 😉

The last pit stop on the way home is Playa Jeremi. There are said to be “sea glass” here, cut and rounded shards of glass, some of which Sohnemann has already found in Shete Boka NP. While he looks for the “glass stones”, we wait above the beach and enjoy the view. In the end, the son's pockets are full of glass stones. So it was worth it!