Sea Kitten (Chelsea, Sea Cat’s daughter) has said she’ll arrange a cab for Scott and Carol so after breakfast I take them into the pier after we say our fond farewells. It has been a great 9 days but time for them to move on to Portsmouth and a cabin they have there. Time for Christy and I to reclaim Milu for ourselves.
After their departure Christy and I gather our laundry and head in. Chelsea tells us where the laundry is now (the one in the book is closed) and arranges for a guide to take us to the Boiling Lake tomorrow.
The laundry is in the next village north, so we walk there, drop off the laundry at the full service place and go in search of the Forestry department. We’re considering the week-long park pass but hopefully we will get more info anyway.
On the way there we come across the Botanical Gardens and decide to walk through, it’s in the same direction. About halfway in there is a trail to Jack’s Walk which takes us to the top of the hill which overlooks Roseau. Turns out this was a redoubt and part of a message relay system in the 1700s, there is not much left here except a statue of Jesus standing on a symbolic trinity capped with the 12 apostles. They called it Jack’s Walk as the soldiers of the day used to walk past the Union Jack on their way to duty on the top of the hill.
Very pleasant walk and eventually leads us right outside the forestry office door. It’s 1:30 pm but they’re closed for lunch. No problem, we’ll walk into town for lunch and maybe some groceries ourselves – the laundry won’t be ready until 4 pm.
All the kids are out for lunch too so the “fast food” spots are busy. We end up walking almost right to the wharf before finding what looks like a suitable restaurant. It’s upstairs, doubles as a clothing shop and seamstress. Food is very good, even the coffee is good and the prices too.
We walk back towards the forestry office, checking out a few grocery stores and buying a few things here and there. No nespresso coffee pods anywhere but not too surprising. We can’t buy too much as the laundry bags will take both our hands on the way back.
The forestry office is not of much use but enough for us to decide we are not going to buy the week-long site-seeing pass. You don’t save much and you need to visit about 6 sites in 7 days to make it pay. That is not likely to happen.
We walk back to the laundry, watch some high school boys play soccer while we wait for the final dry ‘n’ fold, then walk home. Make my contribution to the soccer game when a shot on net goes high, over the fence and on to the main road where we’re walking. I toss it back over the fence.
Short walk back to Sea Cat’s then on to Milu where we unpack all and clean up. Christy makes dinner of some kind.