We spent this past week on Orient. The Club Orient resort property is mostly fenced off and a bare bones crew is moving unit by unit to clean out the remaining beach drift. PerchLite is in full operation serving tasty food and beverages. Cedric&crew are managing the beach. There is plenty of room for all who are there. Chairs/umbrellas are added along the beachfront as needed. The bathroom is in a modified shipping container. The door is locked, staff at PerchLite will provide the key upon request. The toilet is flushed by bucketwater as there is no running water to provide pressure. The PerchLite staff stores water in a cistern and use as needed. Rustic and manageable.

There is not much going on at all between the Club Orient and the Bikini Beach areas. With cruise ships in pburg sun-weds the average noontime headcount at Club Orient was 75-100. Thurs and Friday no cruise ships and the head count was less than 40. We met one other family with children who we met last summer during family month at Club0.

The beach is glorious. It looks and feels adrift as it was before development took over. The seaweed is not as much of an issue as it was one year ago. The crew is running the tractor to rake it it off the shoreline as needed.