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St Lucia And Her Pitons Charm Us.
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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
... pretty ordinary by world standards.
From here we went back into Soufriere, and down to the beach, where one of Spencer's speedboats was waiting to take us to Jalousie beach, between the two Pitons, with a large resort, and small public area with its own change room and loo.
After the pretty good Creole lunch provided by the tour, and snorts of a particularly savage rum punch for those who could handle it, we snorkelled out into the ...
Sailing in the Windward Islands
... was calmer and he then dived down to take a look. Sure enough he found a piece of rope wrapped around the prop, which thankfully he was able to remove, so the engine was then able to function. Consequently, we set off for a third time. By now it was 9.30am, but with a third reef in the main, a small bit of jib out and both engines working we successfully made our crossing. In fact, although the waves were big for the first hour or so, it calmed down and ...
The last few days x
... cats sat outside the cafe. On the way back we popped into a little place and booked a days diving, our last one of the trip. A few days later they picked us up and we went down to the Pitons and dived at the bottom of them. Had been so long since we dived it was nice to get in the water again. Enjoyed a couple of chilled out dives and was so pleased when i saw a turtel. I will never get bored of them. We spent the rest of our time ...
Underwater treasures in St. Lucia
... at our dock instead of us having to drive to the dive shop as we did in St. Martin last year. After boarding the boat and a short ride we were at our first dive site - Anse Chastanet. Located on the Eastern side of the island we dove about 65 feet maximum for about 40 minutes. The visibility was good and the marine life abundant. On shore was Jade Mountain Resort the site where The Bachelor ...
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