Again this morning the wind was pretty strong so we put off snorkeling until the afternoon. In the morning we headed out on the scooter in search of more back roads that we missed yesterday, as well as a waterfall inland a little way. We found some of the back roads and Lyn was quite excited by the number of different flowers we saw, especially the yellow hibiscus trees, which at home are indoor plants and here they are full grown trees. We managed to find the waterfall, but it seems someone had turned it off; there was only a small trickle of water to be seen. Evidently it only “works” after a good rainfall.
The Water-less Waterfall
Back to the cottage for lunch, and then we headed it up to a place call Blackrock, across the other side of the island which is meant to be one of the better snorkeling spots. Unfortunately it was not as good as the other two places we had been to, the water again was a little murky and there were less fish around, however we did see a few bright purple starfish. After the snorkeling we headed back to the cottage and got cleaned up so that we could take the scooter back into town. Renting the scooter was an excellent move as it freed us from the constraints of the bus timetable, and also allowed us to explore further into the island. Plus it was fun! In one of the local newspapers there was an airport departure schedule; we noticed it listed our flight as leaving 30 minutes earlier than we had been told. When we got back we checked with the taxi company and sure enough they were going to pick us up at 5:30AM and not the 6:00AM that we had expected. Thanks Aeroplan for keeping us updated NOT.