Our boat took off from the marina in Soufriere and went straight to what looked like a vertical fault line in the middle of the mountain. In that cave we saw hundreds of bats! Apparently, their droppings are used to make mascara!! Go figure!

A pretty humble one by size. And very cold water!!

That was the explanation our funny guide gave when I asked why the trees had not grown in certain parts of that mountain. Turns out, in reality that there was a bush fire some time back and now the trees are growing back slowly…

That is the town of Soufriere below. We will go there and then take a boat to cut across the Pitons to reach our targeted beach today.

Petit Piton in front and Gros Piton in the back. These are volcanic caps.

Learnt a couple of things – you can make ketchup from banana!! I knew the rum part but ketchup?

Also, those blue covers around the bananas – apparently they are put to protect the bananas from birds and insects.

I also learnt that a banana tree can blossom only for one year!