Cacacrou, Dominica

We wanted to do a trek of some sort on our last day here. We decided to walk from the hotel to the top of Cacacrou and back, a round trip of about two hours.

We left around 8:45am, it was really pleasant out. Plus the walk starts by heading downhill to sea level. We walked through Soufriere and then along the boardwalk around Soufriere Bay to Scotts Head. At the isthmus we paid the marine park fee (5 EC each, about 2 USD). There’s a road all the way up to the cell phone tower, lined with cacti and snake plants. From the tower, it’s about 50m up a dirt path to the top. It was really windy at the top, we stayed away from the edge cause we thought we might get blown over. There’s actually a ridge going up another 10m or so but that seemed dangerous.

I had read that you could easily see where the Atlantic met the Caribbean, but there wasn’t much of a distinction.

We headed back down, I took a bunch of pics of the fishing boats and colourful buildings in Scotts Head. We stopped for a local juice at Chez Wen, and then carried on back to the hotel. It was closer to noon by now and it felt really hot. Our phones said the UV was 12, the highest we’ve seen.

We could see the Enchanted Princess in port down in Roseau, with 3,660 passengers. The large cruise ships do overwhelm the most popular tourist sites, but it was pretty tourist-free around Soufriere Bay.

We spent a few minutes cooling down in our villa. We then drove back down to Chez Wen for lunch. They have a nice set up with their patio in the shade, overlooking the bay. I had the ribs and Heather the coconut shrimp. Both were excellent.

On the way back we stopped off at Weefee’s Bar. Weefee was our snorkeling guide, he also owns a bar on the waterfront, which looks to be his true calling. We had a beverage under the shade of an almond tree, and then got back to the hotel.

The heat from the day wiped us out, and we napped most of the afternoon.

We got a head start on our packing before we went down for dinner. We’re not sure if our luggage will be checked all the way through to Toronto so we planned our carry-on for the layover in Port of Spain.

We weren’t really hungry for dinner after our big lunch. I tried the rabbit provençale, just cause I was impressed that they had that on the menu. Heather had the blackened catch of the day, which here generally is mahi mahi. Both were really good.

And that was it for the official part of the vacation! We have a couple transit days to get home.