St Castries, St Lucia

Overnight sail of 100 nautical miles.

Wow, sleep-in this morning – woke at 7am and they were just docking the ship.  Watched that, then R upstairs for tea for us to have on the balcony.  Took our time over breakfast and getting ready, and headed off about 9-ish.  Got ashore and there were signs for Segway – yes!  Something we’ve both wanted to do, with me having played enough of it on Wii.  Booked for 10.30am, so we wandered round the shops and bought a few more presents.  Back to the ship to drop off the presents, then back to the information centre to get on our way to Segway.  Taxi about 15 mins away to Rodney Bay, to the “Tours ‘R’ Us” office (cute sign imitating Toys R Us).  Orientation on the Segway, then on our way.  I must admit, there was one hilarious moment during my orientation.  I was on the Segway, and the guide had taught me how to go forward.  Then we tried backward.  Oh, I was going backward alright – faster and faster – I knew I had to lean my weight forward to stop, and he was yelling at me, “lean forward!!”.  Nope, brain not in gear.  “Help, help,” I cried.  He came running after me by which time brain was engaged, and I got my weight forward and stopped.  Whew.

They are relatively simple to use once you get the hang of them – some of us are just slower to learn than others!  Big leaning forward to go uphill, and lean back to go downhill – which was a bit scary at first cause I had visions of me going too far back and toppling backwards off the golly thing.  However, we had no mishaps so that was a good thing.  Seeing the almond trees was one of the highlights, and also noni trees.  Lots of stops along the way for photos, then a climb up a hill to a rock pool to feed some fish.  Down the hill again for a fresh fruit refreshment – pineapple, wax apples, pink grapefruit and bananas.  We had a great time.

Taxi back to Castries to the restaurant we had chosen out of the LPG – The Coal Pot.  Great lunch in the most gorgeous setting looking out over a lagoon.  It was really beautiful.

Walked back to the ship, did the blog, shower, then sailaway at 5pm.  Down to Rendezous Lounge to watch On Point, an a capella group, then dinner at the posh restaurant, The Olympic.  Tired bunnies again so home to bed.