A bus ride...

...to Scarborough. "Snorre", "Felicie" and "Babette", eight crew altogether.. We hop on a bus and bump along the winding coast-and -hilltop Windward Road. We've done it before but not with such a nice bunch of sailors. We eat at "The Blue Crab". Again, good food (flying fish) and ever cheerful Alison Sardinha teasing, laughing and serving us.

It's a hot walk up to Fort King George. Reward: great view of the bay under the giant spreading Saman trees. We discuss what the big sword-leaf plants with the long red flowers growing on the Saman tree branches are. Wild tobacco, orchids, lichens , ivy, ferns, there's a whole nursery of plants on the huge horizontal limbs.

We have the bus to ourselves on the way back at 4pm. Now it's a "private maxi-taxi"! We drive down the other side of the island, stopping at overlooks of the various bays: "Castara", "Englishman's" and "Bloody Bay". Just like on the other side, the road winds down to the bays, and climbs up each headland between. The hillsides are bright with orange flowered "Immortelles", trees originally planted to shade the cocoa trees. The bays are all azure blue with a solid surf breaking on the beaches. Most with no place else to land a dinghy.
The Tobago circuit route not being completed, we take the Ridge Road over the rain forest. Then further along, at Speyside, back over the Ridge and down to Charlotteville. We're in the water, dinghy-ing home by sunset, good timing!

At 8pm we're all gathered at "Snorre" for a drink and a chat. And we all agree it's been a great day!