Vacation Day 6

Saturday May 12, 2007

Another early morning around 7:30. This day wasn’t going to be very busy. We got dressed and headed for breakfast. We tried their banana fritters but they were not very good. But the fresh fruit today was really good… especially the pineapple. Dave tried some of the dried fruit and it was good too. The dried pineapple was like candy, very sweet. After breakfast we went to the souvenir shop to buy some more sun screen. We then went on a Boston whaler. We were hoping to go to honeymoon beach, but we saw a boat docked on it so went exploring. We boated past Oil Nut Bay. We thought about docking there but there wasn’t a very good place to dock… so we boated around. Next we went to Saba Rock. We went to see how their souvenir shop was. It wasn’t much of anything. It just had lots of clothes and expensive jewelry, and pirate stuff. But one of the boaters who was trying to catch fish showed us a sting ray who was trying to sneak a bite to eat from the fisherman’s cage. It was rather large. Tarpin were also hoping for a snack. We then went back to see if honeymoon beach was clear. Unfortunately it wasn’t so we headed back to the marina. As we were docking our boat the resort’s engineer, Jacque, tried to give us instructions but no use… we could not understand him at all. He has a very heavy French accent. We finally made it to solid ground and had our picnic lunch at the Fat Virgin Café. They really must love Celine Dion because that is all they were playing in the restaurant. Our lunch was good. We had salad, turkey sandwiches, honey dew, and plantain chips. We went back to the souvenir shop but it was closed for lunch. We went back to our room and Dave took a nap and I laid out on our front porch reading. After Dave got up we got ready for our tea time. They had really good lemon cake with frosting and vanilla cake without frosting and chocolate cookies that melted in your mouth. We then went back to the room and got ready for a hike. We loaded up on the bug spray and headed out. This hike was challenging for me. It was really steep and you had to constantly watch were you put your foot or you will slip. Actually both Dave and I slipped once. But we didn’t get hurt. The views were amazing. You could see island after island and just as far as your eye could go. We saw lots of lizards, goats, grasshoppers, and we might have seen the elusive pigmy gecko. Dave took a picture of it so we can tell for sure later. We saw lots of hermit crabs which was very funny being at the top of the mountain. At one point Dave saw a little green snake that jumped at him and tried to bite him. Fortunately Dave had seen it in time and was able to jump out of the way, thanks to all the times he’d seen the crocodile hunter do it. The snake was harmless anyway, just trying to get away. Dave was so sweet he helped me up and down the steep slippery rocks. We visited lovers leap but the view wasn’t as fantastic as some of the over views we saw. The trail ended by the ocean and we walked back to our villa. We took a shower because we were covered in sweat. It was really hot up in the mountain. We got ready for dinner and headed out. For our appetizers I had some sort of shrimp salad and Dave had five spice duck salad. For dinner I had tuna and Dave had swordfish. For desert I had molten lava chocolate cake and Dave had frozen soufflé. The calypso singer was back tonight so we enjoyed his singing while we ate. We then headed back to our room. Dave read Robinson Crusoe and I read The constant Princess until it was late and we went to bed.