December 23, 2024

St. Lucia is one of the islands we visited last year. It is a small island in the Eastern Caribbean and is only 27 miles long and 14 miles wide. It was long believed that Columbus discovered St. Lucia in 1502 but recent evidence suggests that he merely sailed by. There was really no European presence on the island until its settlement in the 1550s by Francois le Clerc, a notorious buccaneer.

We sailed into the port of Castries early to arrive at 7 am.

After breakfast, we headed out to our snorkeling boat, a catamaran called Carnival. Our crew was very entertaining!

The snorkeling was nice. I haven’t had a chance to look at the pictures but I didn’t really get any good ones. The sea bed was rocky, no pretty coral and the fish were all pretty far down.

We snorkeled for about an hour and then headed back on the boat where the crew entertained us with music and delicious rum punch!

There are 3 Sandals resorts on the island. Here’s a shot of one of them.

Lots of beautiful homes in the hills too.

Norm took a little nap!

When we returned to our cabin, we found this invitation waiting for us. It was a tour of the bridge!

Vendata, the chief concierge, took us up to the bridge and Dymtra, one of the staff, gave us the tour. Of course, you couldn’t take pictures of the instruments, but we did get some good pictures.

I had to take some pictures of the roofs of the gingerbread village structures. Very inventive! I really like the one made of matzoh! And the cookie table is kept completely stocked 24 hours a day. I try not to pass it too often.

Tonight we have another Oceania party and dinner in Polo.

Tomorrow we will be in Antigua. Our excursion is a lobster and champagne catamaran cruise. We wanted to do that last year and it was sold out. It is our last port day before the two sea days on the way back to Miami.