Okay, so today, while out in the pool, we got to chatting with Barbara and John (?) who have been following our antics, such as they've been, and she asked about Friars Bay and our day there, and most particularly, she shared her experience of a few days prior to ours. She spoke of a 'herd' of horned cattle that greeted them as they got out of their car and also of the terrible odor there and couldn't believe we hadn't experienced it, too.

I blithely told her no, we experienced no odor in the air at all, and my husband laughed out loud.

Who knew?! It seems there was a heavy noxious odor in the air, strongest closest to Kali's but still lingering heavily in the FBBC area when the prevailing breezes blew in the right direction.

Trouble is, I have heavy allergies which the Sahara sand haze is really raising havoc with, and that same Sahara sand thing seems to be totally exacerbating my already poor sense of smell. But it seems the combination may actually be a good thing in my case.

So yes, my friends, there clearly was an odor but I am just well blessed in having a severely limited sense of smell, which I guess explains exactly the 'why' as to why I've never noticed that odor so many speak of.

I never much thought about it one way or the other before, but I guess in this case, that particular short-coming is actually a blessing in disguise, and that's a good thing, right? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />

So I offer my most sincere apologies to those I may have either mislead or questioned regarding this in the past. It would seem, yes, pat there really can be and often is a noxious odor there. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />