Palm Island st Vincent

... landlady who showed us what we needed to know, we paid, and then she was gone. I rented a big apartment because our younger son Vincent and his wife Rory were to join us from London on Good Friday and stay with us until Easter Monday. It was located at 10 ...

... we were going to make dreams come true!!!.After yet another belt loosening breaky we got a taxi into st.georges the pretty little port and capital of the island.We caught the Osprey [a catamaran]from the carenage and enjoyed the 2 hour smooth ride to ...

The sailing over to Union didn't take long, just an hour or so. Union island is a bit different from the other islands we had visited that far. It seemed more authentic with even less visitors (a few yachties of course) and it seemed poorer than St. ...

... to Bequia, the crown jewel of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.      History   The island, only nine miles south of St. Vincent (known as the "Mainland" to locals) was first settled by the Arwak people.  The Arwarks were ...

... said they were almost ready to ring the bell for the 9:00 service. This lovely woman was raising funds for a trip to St. Vincent for a medical procedure. We bought a few trinkets from her and she proceeded to tell us about their newly acquired ...

Some select photos from the islands of Grenada, Palm Island, Tobago Cays, Bequia, and St. ...

... the world's best golf courses, sat our villa, complete with our own personal butler. Coming in for a Landing!Flying in, the island looked tiny, the airstrip appeared to take up most of it.  A sky blue ATC tower sat festively waiting next to the yellow ...

... to see this island as it was the home of one of the guys who did some work for us in St Maarten, and he was always talking about this beautiful island from which he came. We were not disappointed.  Bequia was a quiet little place, however it's people ...

... beach combing and had a blast just enjoying the scenery of these unspoilt islands. There are locals from the neighbour island - Union island - who will offer you freshly caught lobster at a reasonable price. For being in the Caribbean that is! Eyvind ...

... turtle, Brother King and the thousands of travelers who have come to visit him, arrive here in this remote corner of an isolated island in hopes of learning the secret of these ancient travelers of time- the secrets of survival, the secrets of the sea, ...

... the hinterland, ending up at Mount Lofty. It has recovered pretty well from the bushfires. Get hazy views out over the city and St Vincent Gulf, and better views of the very pretty Piccadilly Valley to the SW.        Take ...

... of the area. Head north, through blustery winds and rain, on the A1 through flat land not far inshore from St Vincent Gulf. Pass some interesting satirical roadside sculptures addressing some sort of waste disposal proposal, but our photo record shows ...

... . Jeff pointed out the pineapple plantation on which Pirates of the Caribbean II and III were filmed (the original was filmed on St. Vincent). We stopped in Calibishe to place our lunch order at a local restaurant and continued south to the Red Rocks, ...

... is the capitol of South Australia and sits beside the Torrens River between the Adelaide Hills and the waters of Gulf St. Vincent. What's most genius about this city is that the CBD is surrounded by parkland before transitioning into fairly nondescript ...

... a glass of red wine (Martin had coffee). Crossed into Bedford Street and saw the narrowest house in New York – number 75 ½. Edna St Vincent Millay used to live here, and her most famous lines are immortalised in a plaque over the door: “My ...

... is something else. There are the black faces dating back to when the British dumped all their unruly slaves from St. Vincent on the island and then there are names such as McDougal and white faces dating back to pirates and the same plantation owners ...

... ancestors of the Taino Indians that Columbus came in contact with.  In 1635, 2 slave ships wrecked off the island of St. Vincent and the West African slaves mixed with the Caribs to create the Garifuna. By 1763 the ...