Malls Gablewoods Mall, on the Gros Islet Highway north of town, has an assortment of shops that sell everything from local crafts to groceries and household products. Some of the shops that are of interest to tourists airport expr include:
King George V Street is the major east/west road through town, and it is lined with balconied restaurants and shops. Find it off Bay Front between the tourist office and Royal Bank of Canada, and follow it up toward Morne Bruce Hill to the Botanical Gardens. This 40-acre garden planted on a former sugarcane field thrives on approximately 85 inches of rain each year, and while some of the oldest vegetation has been destroyed by hurricanes, there are still 500 species of trees and plants to see. Take time to visit the aviary to view endangered Jaco and Sisserou parrots (they are bred in a research area behind the exhibition cages, but the lab is not open to the public), and get a reality check at the monument to Hurricane David a crushed school bus trapped under a giant baobab tree that was uprooted by the 1979 storm.
As you dive deeper, the reef drops quickly from 20 to 140 feet in a solid wall of mixed corals surrounded by schools of fish, crabs, lobsters and eels. At around 100 feet, layers of porcelain-like plate coral are stacked airport expr one on top of another. The massive coral reef continues all the way to the bay at Soufri re, in water that habitually offers 80 to 100 feet of visibility.
Experienced divers must present a certification card when they sign in at the dive shop. Expect to pay about EC$106/US$40 for a one-tank dive and EC$160/US$60 for a two-tank dive, including equipment. Multi-day packages bring the per-tank dive price down to as little as EC$67.50/US$25. Off-season rates may be somewhat lower, but dive shops stay busy year-round and don t discount much.
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