Our excursion today, 9 of us ( in what would become impressive to me) in a Toyota mini-bus. We left the city and headed up into the mountains to visit two waterfalls, part of the National Park system. The road was steep and bumpy with lots of hairpin curves. I was glad I wasn't driving.
After about 40 minutes of this discomfort, we arrived at "Emerald Pool" which featured a waterfall cascading into a beautiful pool. It was a difficult walk up and down steep stone steps. Sam opted to stop about halfway. We are now in the rain forest, at an elevation of about 3500 feet.
Next stop, about 30 minutes more on this terrible road, brought us to Trafalgar Falls. Another challenging walk on wet, stone steps brought us to a great view of two waterfalls. Quite spectacular! Sam was a trooper and managed this hike with only a little help!
Our final stop of the tour was back down in the city to the Botanical Garden, which wasn't much to see. We were expecting to see some parrots but that didn't work out. On the way down we stopped at a place called Morne Bruce Garden for a great view of the city and the Zuiderdam at the pier.
Our tour ended at the pier at about 2:00. That Toyota mini-bus served us well, those were some tough roads! We walked along the main drag to find something for lunch. Once again, we were disappointed. We did stop at this one place that had been recommended, only to find out that the lunch serving hours were over. You'll see in the pictures all those white tents lined up along the street. Those are all merchants selling the usual tourist crap. And, they're all the same! How do any of them make any money? We were the only ship there today.
So, back on board and quick bite from the Dive Bar to hold us over until dinner.
Our enterrainment tonight was the same comedian we had seen before. He is hilarious!!
Tomorrow was go to St Kitts.
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