Day 16 Back to St Lucia

It’s Saturday, so apart from the fact there was corned beef hash on the breakfast menu, not a lot has changed since we were here a couple of days ago.  We had planned to take a trip with the same party of people with whom we were with here last time, but allegedly, the fun older lady seems to like a few sherberts, and we’re not talking the ones that come in a yellow tube with liquorice in, so everyone dropped out prior to our meeting up. 

We decided to take a taxi ride up to Pigeon Point, which is towards the north end of the island.  We shared a minibus with a group of people who were going to Rodney Bay beach and another couple who were going on the segway vehicles.  Once the driver had dropped them all off we continued for another 15 mins or so until we reached Pigeon Point.  We hadn’t planned to stay that long, so the taxi driver said he would wait and take us back. Pigeon Point is a local National Trust site and had we realised what a stunning place it was, we would have spent much longer there looking around and taking pictures.  The beach was empty and it looked out over Rodney Bay a beautiful long sandy beach, which is apparently one of the best on the island.

Heading North from Castries is completely different to going the other way, in that the northern route is much more developed with beachfront hotels and shops, whereas southbound is mountainous and lush rain forests.  We’re beginning to like this island and I could see us returning here one day for a holiday.

We spent the afternoon back on board ship doing a bit of sun worshipping on the top sun deck but around 4.00pm a gaggle of gobby people arrived to break the happy quietness.  Sad thing is they looked as though they didn’t have twopence between them, so we were wondering if this was some new government initiative to get rid of the great unwashed.  Give them some extra benefit and send them to sea. 

We departed St Lucia just after 5pm and at 6.15pm we have travelled just 9 nm with 74nm to go before we arrive at Roseau, Dominica and we are currently cruising at 10 knots.  The temperature is a balmy 28 deg C and the wind is 17knots.

Anyway, it’s Glyn, the Welsh eating machine’s birthday today, so we’re meeting for pre dinner drinks in the cocktail bar on deck 18 at the top of the ship.   But before that we had to call for emergency rations to be delivered to the cabin – we ran out of tonics this evening!!

Glyn’s wife Joanna surprised us tonight by wearing a dress that she had on before.  Up until now she has worn a different outfit every night.  We were wondering if she had 21 outfits in her suitcase!  In fairness they have all been very glamorous and helped her to look the consummate professional cruiser.

Yet another superb dinner menu with 5 courses to delight our taste buds and to make things worse for the waistline, our waiter has taken to giving us all Devonshire clotted cream ice cream with whatever we have for dessert.  It tastes absolutely delicious, but we dread to think of the calories – so we don’t!!  I’ll probably have to wear the new trousers every night until we finish the cruise now as some of the other slacks are getting uncomfortable.  Slack they are not!

Dominica tomorrow, arriving around 08.00, but I suspect we may be alongside somewhat earlier.