Bounty and a Boat Tour

I was exhausted last night and slept 12 hours. Felt much more refreshed this morning.
First port of call was the tourist centre to get a SIM card. From there I walked up the main stop in Burnt Pine, which despite Kingston being the capital, appears to be the main settlement. Lots of interesting little shops to look in.
The place I’ve booked most of my tours through ask that you check in with them when you arrive. I thought that that one of the reasons may have been to sell more tours. I was right and they were successful. I added a night tour of Kingston for tomorrow night.
I usually like doing my own thing but watching all my friend Cathrine did while on a bus tour in Europe inspired me to book these tours or experiences. I’ve got at least one every day except Sunday and Wednesday and some days have two.

I had a quick lunch in town and then went to the Fletcher’s Mutiny Cyclorama. No photos from inside as we were requested not to take any. It was great, the artists put in a lot of detail. It told the story of The Bounty from the UK through to Tahiti, the Mutiny and Pitcairn Island. It was very informative and well done. I did learn the purpose of the Bounty’s trip was to source breadfruit plants which were to be planted in the Caribbean and used as a cheap food source for slaves.
From there I went down to Emily Bay for a glass bottom boat experience. I got there early and had a walk along the beach which was gorgeous.
The tour operator is a seventh generation descendant of Fletchers Christian and he was very well informed and had a lovely manner. Saw lots of coral and various species of wrasse. I’m sure there were other species but wrasse dominated.
As we got back to the beach about 3:30pm people were coming down to swim. It was quite cool but the water temperature is about 20 degrees year round.
It started to rain so I cut my explorations of the head out past the lone pine short.
Back to my cottage to read my book before coming out for tea. I always try and have one nice dinner when I travel and tonight is it. I’m at The Homestead which have a homemade charcoal grill out the back.
The drive out was a bit dicey and I’m still trying to work out how to swap from high to low beam when I meet an oncoming car. Should be simple but it seems to go from high beam to low beam and then back to high beam in the one motion. I spent quite a bit of time last night trying to figure out how to turn the lights on in the first place. I eventually found the dial on the dash.
Dinner was delicious and I’m looking forward to another early night as I’ve a tour at 8:30am.Read more