St. Lucia

This morning we got up and mat our tour group at 8:40 for a jeep tour of St, Lucia. This was one of the coolest tours we did for several reasons. First of all, our tour had 5 guests and one guide. Many of the other jeeps that past us had like 15 – 20 guests. This gave us lots of time to talk to our guide about the culture and life of the islanders. Also cool was that the other three guests on our jeep were visiting from Barbados, so we got to talk a lot about their island, and here how similar and different the two islands were.



The jeep drove us through Castries, the main city of St. Lucia, and into the forests, St. Lucia is very green. Its main export is bananas which they ship to England. Next, we stopped at part of the forest and hiked down to a waterfall. Then we drove farther to as swimming hole. Our guide, Carla, said that on days she and her friends don’t have anything to do, they come down to this swimming hole and hang out all day.
Finally, we drove through Carla’s small fishing village before heading home,. On St. Lucia, villages are very community oriented. They know each other, and on the big holidays they celebrate together with huge parties in the streets where everyone comes out and dances together. Everyone on the island seems very happy and very friendly. They genuinely seemed welcoming to us…some were more pushy than others when trying to cell their wares, but many were just cool and laid back. This was a very neat experience.
Back on board, we had lunch in the Wind Jammer and spent some time reading by the pool before getting ready for dinner. This was our second formal night. Grant discovered that he packed someone else’s dark suit jacket…although we are not quite sure who’s….so he wore his other suit jacket again.
For diner, I had A Thai Lemongrass chicken soup (yum), a salad, blue cheese and sun dried tomato tortellini, and black forest mousse for dessert. Grant had I think a duck pate appetizer, clam chowder, orange salmon, and baked Alaska.
After dinner, we too some pictures and then changed our clothes. It was super windy when we were walking out and the deck, so that was fun. We went up and watched the headliner comedy show, and then looked at the midnight buffet before heading to bed.