St. Lucia

We dock early at 8 am.  Our room service arrives just prior to 7 am and we dress for our tour and meet up with the others in Vines.

Cosol Tours is amazing, we toured with them a few years ago and thought why not try them again after so many years.  Cosol was there to meet us and we were divided up into vans.  Our vans had all our friends.

Our driver is Everett and he gets us on our way maneuvering around the city of Castries.

We stop numerous times at look outs, scenic spots, and even a banana plantation where we get to enjoy a banana and Everett explains about the growing cycle of the bananas.  And check out this huge snail.

We stop at a spot for food.  All food from St. Lucia.  So many different items including meats, fish, vegetables and fruits.  Also drinks are handed out all throughout the tour.

The next area we head to is the volcano where we are taken on a bit of guided tour.  Oh you are lucky you can’t smell it.

Now we are on a boat to the beach at the base of the Pitons.  The water is lovely ( a little cool ) but still lovely.  We did encounter a short shower but it passed quickly.

More drinks!  

We stop at a beautiful waterfall.  Entrance is included and you can go in if you wish but we don't want to get wet.

we stop for warm bread and cheese

Then we are on our way back to the ship. 

Even our great guide Everett stopped at the Rum distillery where we bought some rum to take home.

The entire tour was over 6 hours and the price was $75 per person.  I can highly recommend CosolTours.  The biggest negative is that the whole group travels together (but in different vans) so when you all come together, like for lunch, or drinks, at the waterfall you have to deal with all the vans and the people from our large group, which was around 60 people. 

Once back on board we lay down and Bam we are fast asleep.  We wake when there is a knock at the door at 5 and then we realize we are back to sleep and wake up at 7 pm when the phone rings.  Guess we needed it.

We dress for the evening and meet up with Dylan and Ben and his friends for drinks.

Afterwards we all agree Alfredos is in order.  This time I ordered a pasta starter of zucchini wrapped around spaghetti. This is the first time we have ordered pasta and it was very good.  The pizza was very good too – I had La Romana minus the ham.  And of course some Sangria.