Boiling Lake Its like one giant Staircase

So Steve Dave and I decided that a 6 hour hike is just the way to celebrate no more tests. The day after Steve's last test we headed out to Titou Gorge which is the beginning of the hike to Boiling Lake. This hike is like a billion stairs to get to the top of this amazing mountain top which I suggest any sane person stop and go back from there. then its a numbing series of upp and down steps and sulphur stream crossings. It's a beautiful hike. But no joke. before we even made it to the Lake I was trying to figure out if I would ever make it back to Titou Gorge. It was a really hard hike. The day after My legs were so tired and I just loved living on the fourth floor. Those stairs almost defeated me. 

I think one of the funniest parts of this trip was when the transport driver brought us back to Roseau to go home and as soon as we got out this guy comes up to us going on about Dominica and how we are free to do anything and its great and a lot of stuff that was not understandable to me. finally all of were so tired of standing there and not really caring what he was going on about, so we all made some random ok uh huh sounds and walked away while he didn't lose any steam but thankfully did not follow us. 

So this is us in Mordor or the valley of desolation where everything smells like egg salad. 

All 3 of us needed before pictures. I think there would have been after pics but I was too tired to take them.

So the veiw from the top of this mountain was amazing. We could see tons of mountain tops and a couple different beach fronts. A cloud also was blowing around and came right over us. it was really cool. Climbing mountains is so great when you reach the top.

This is Dave's Nature Valley Granola Bar Add.

The rocks under the sulphur water have a white film on them and people who hike past have written all sorts of things on them, this is Dave leaving his mark, thankfully not like a dog.

Oh the stairs. I hate stairs. It was kinda cool that half the logs laid across for steps have criss-cross marks carved on them. It must having taken so much work to make this trail.

Once we got to Boiling Lake if you want to touch the lake you have to climb down this wall and since I doubted myself even making it back up the trail, I decided not to climb down. Steve and Dave did however and they discovered that a Boiling Lake is in fact really hot. Amazing glad we know that.

Everytime we saw steam coming up on our hike we thought we were so close to the lake. quite wrong we were. Its like chasing a rainbow. You will never ever get there. But it was entertaining talking about it and the egg sandwiches that we needed to eat when we got there. this is a stinky hike.

Hooray this is the Lake. its in what looks like a bowl made of mountain.

As you can see it was Boiling. It was so big. The rings were crazy. the steam from it kept blowing all over us. So if you can't make this hike now you know what it looks like.