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St Lucia And Her Pitons Charm Us.
St. Lucia - what a gem of a Caribbean Island.
From the first glimpse from our cruise ship window she had us in love with her beauty. Ports for cruise ships are generally the ugly side of town, but Castries was the exception being a pretty little inlet with sail boat moorings in our view and surrounding lush tropical hillsides with colourful houses poking out of the slopes. St Lucia is famous and has a UNESCO World Heritage listing for its ...
Exploring the Caribbean the easy way -on a cruise
... for the stops, and the shipboard life is a bonus.
A week before the cruise, Steve, one of the main organisers of all the activities, and the person providing us with wonderful spreadsheets containing details of all the people signed up on the various activities, as well as the activities themselves, and who also organised a great banner for the Sailaway, had to pull out as his married daughter had just been diagnosed with cancer and she had to ...
Luscious St Lucia
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We found a little bar and had a bottle of Rooster beer each; it was strong stuff at 7.6%. A radio blasted out reggae music which competed with the loud soca music coming from the bar next door. When we finished, I could have put another one away, but Trevor was keen to try somewhere else as he found the blaring cacophony of music annoying.
After talking a slow stroll back to the port, we stopped at a little ...
Zipping!
... false nutmegs, vanilla vines, and many others. It was lovely riding through the forest layer right below the canopy (we’d be in the canopy on the return), and proved good for bird spotting. We saw two hawks engaged in a flying mating dance, and another hawk seated on a branch of a tree. Lots of hummingbirds, warblers, and banana [somethings].
Finally, we arrived at the end of the gondola ride. We took ...
The last few days x
... out that we were backpackers and not off the cruise ship and they not only converted the price in to carribean dollars but they cut it by about half as well. They know where the money is and it's not us!! After the rain eased we had a wander around town and then went to a bar overlooking the harbour for a drink. It was hilarious watchng two little guys bail out their boat with a small bucket as so much rain had come down. ...