For the craic of it we hired an electric scooter today to ride every road on Terre Haut and to facilitate, in the meaning of making easier, for the walk up to La Vigie du Chameau. A fort on top of the highest point in the Saints. The translation of La Vigie du Chameau is somewhat baffling, Camel Lookout. Camel’s in the Caribbean? Someone’s name? Does the profile of the hill resemble a camel hump? No. I don’t know. I do know from leaving the scooter at the bottom of the road (road closed to vehicles) it took 45 minutes to reach the top.
A couple of years ago we walked a couple of miles from the dinghy dock in town, climbed the peak to Camel’s Lookout crawled back to our dinghy exhausted. It was a breeze this time!
We
drove every road (there’s not many on a small island), visited
every beach, stopped for lunch, visited Fort Napoleon, drove second
and third times over the same roads, looked at the airport building
and the cemetery (on the same road) and it was still only 2.30pm. We
returned the scooter at 3pm and dinghied to Jackster to drink water
and recover. After so much exercise and effort I needed a rest.
Crawen beach 
Pompierre beach 
dreaming of riding away from it all 
resting at Camel Lookout 
can we go home now?
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