Soufriere, Alive with a Special Strain of Adrenaline!
09 March 2011 | Big, Lush and Flavorful...St. Lucia!
Becca
We thought that Soufriere was going to be a sleepy little town where we could relax and just chill. NOT...this place is pumped up on some special kind of adrenalin that won't let them relax either. We've been privy to these islanders and how hard they work, how hard life is here for them...but this is NUTS. This town, Baron Village actually, was the hardest hit from hurricane Tomas. You can see the landslides where people lost their lives, homes and that road that used to wrap around this side of Petite Piton. We know all too well about hurricanes in Miami. It brings people and towns together and creates a better world in the long run. They just seem filled with an urgency that only a storm instigate.
We were tired yesterday when we arrived...but the activity was just too intense, I couldn't nap let alone sleep. We weren't planning to stay either. We didn't put up the connector (that magnificent piece of canvas that connects the dodger and the bimini and gives us a huge shade tree), but we're leaving, right? The tour boats, the fishing boats, the dive boats, the catamarans for touring too. All packed and taking multiple trips a day! The perogues, 20-30 at least, selling fish, bread, veggies, jewelry, carvings, fuel among everything else we MIGHT need, flying by every five minutes, at least. Can you say WAKES? We were all over the place with the willawaws too. One minute we were tugging on our mooring strings, the next we were doing 360s having no idea which way we would be facing.
We stayed for just a couple of days...got some hiking in, made some new friends, got some rotis, some fresh Tuna and a wood carving for our friend Karen who's coming to visit.
It is time to find a quieter place...after all my man is looking for peace, not more of the daily energy he's subjected to by yours truly.