Vacation Humpday.

Midway through vacation. That’s what today was. We aren’t thinking of heading home but we start to think of what else we’d like to do while we’re here.  More hiking and snorkeling make the short list.

Yesterday and today we hiked. About 6 miles yesterday, down a goat path on a ridge that very few people hike, Giles Track. It was completely exposed, hot and dry. Very hot. Very sunny. It went all the way down to the coast, under cliffs with precariously perched boulders everywhere above us. But it was gorgeous, and we saw no one.

Panorama of the view where we hiked down. 

Tom at the bottom. You can see the ridge we followed on the left. 

Today we walked about 8 miles total, starting off on the Crispeen Track to The Bottom from our town Windwardside. We took off before breakfast in search of Island Flavors breakfast/lunch place. It did not disappoint!  But walking an hour through steep rainforest will definitely give you an appetite. 

After breakfast we headed over to The Ladder hike. It is a steep staircase on the side of a cliff that was used to transfer ALL goods coming into the island from the water. After hiking it I cannot imagine moving things like grand pianos up. But they did. 

This is Ladder Cove. Beautiful. 

This is the top of the staircase looking down. 

After also visiting the harbor and deciding it was too rough to snorkel, we headed back up through the rainforest toward our town. 

This is the cutest newborn goat we saw at a house on a footpath in the middle of the rainforest. We met the original owner and builder, now in his 70s that shared great stories of the island back in the day while we sat on decrepit plastic furniture in his side yard. Thank you Mr Barnes, for the hospitality.  

We arrived back at our cottage completely sweaty and disgusting. Finished up with the pool, dinner and then chasing an escaped dog down on the museum grounds while trying to protect these pet rabbits of the museum. No lie. We saved them all and captured the dog.