There is also a one hour trail from the sulphur springs of the tiny settlement of Wotten Waven through forest and banana plantations across the Trois Pitons River up to the Trafalgar Falls. Bathing is possible in pools in the river beneath the falls. D Auchamps Gardens are about a mile out of Trafalgar Village on the way back to Roseau. The designer, Sara Honychurch, has laid out the family estate with a huge variety of wild and cultivated plants with a citrus orchard and a traditional Caribbean garden. More species are being added weekly and plants are well labelled.
Emphasis is on the origin and uses of plants, whether medicinal or agricultural.
Evidence of volcanic activity is manifested in hot springs, sulphur emissions and the occasional small eruption. You have to return on the same path as an alternative trail is no longer maintained. In the valley below the Boiling Lake is a spectacular region known as the Valley of Desolation , where the forest has been destroyed by sulphuric emissions. A small volcanic eruption in 1997, not considered cause for alarm, caused ash to scatter over an area of about 50 ft sq. At the beginning of the trail to the Boiling Lake is the Titou Gorge, now considerably damaged by rock fall from the hydroelectric development in the area, where a hot and a cold stream mingle.