Good view of a catamaran

A Princess ship in port

Castries, St. Lucia

Leaving the ship for our tour of the island

Headed out to sea on our catamaran

Kids enjoying the trampoline

Nice resorts all along the coast

The weather was great, though it was 85 degrees

Up sails!

Approaching the Pitons

Getting closer

Le Grande Piton

Still closer

There were lots of private beaches along the coast

The Pitons are three miles apart

The Biggie

Too many pictures of the Pitons?

They're covered in forestation

Soufriere, St. Lucia

Inside the drive-in volcano

The volcanic vents kill all vegetation

Smokin!

It stank like sulphur

Pretty waterfall above the volcanic area

It was warm enough to want to dive in

Volcanic mud baths

Boiling mud...hot stuff!

This might be Gabriel's hole...Gabriel was a tour guide that fell in

Ouch....looks warm

Pretty in the background

The volcanic mud turns the river black

Visiting a plantation

Some unripe mangos

The vegetation was quite lush

Every plantation had a shrine to the Virgin Mary

This is called a traveling palm

Isn't its growth pattern neat?

The house where farina is made

The old plantation house

We got a coconut-shucking demonstration, and some coconut water

Pretty banyan tree

This dude was mixing in a preservative to keep the cocoa beans fresh

The mule turns the wheel to squeeze juice from sugar cane

Then he gets to eat the roughage

Recreations of the Arawak/Caribe (native tribes) villages

Cute baby mule....but a little mangy

Mommy mule

Leaving Soufriere (from the French, sulphur in the air)

Waiting for lunch on the catamaran

Name that fish!

Lots of different coral types

Flying through the water

Check out his teeth

Neat yellow tubes

Various plants/coral (and my finger)

I know this one....it's called a Sargeant Major

Great blue!

These cup-like things are apparently sponges

More tubes

Another sargeant major

Yes. It's a grey fish.

And some sea urchins

This one came out nice and clear

Big-ass brain coral

Mmm...blue

An eel or sea snake of some kind

Grey and reddish stripes

Another sponge

Tubes all over the place

This guy was hiding on the bottom in the sand

Parrotfish, maybe?

The St. Lucian flag

View of the coast

Danielle with my conch

Marigot Bay, one of the more famous bays in the area

This resort has plenty of boats

The original Dr. Dolittle was filmed near here

Right on this beach, in fact

I love this shot

This one's even better

Headed back out to sea

One of the three Sandals resorts in St. Lucia

Sunny and clear

Approaching our ship

The Jolly Roger

The duty free shops on the Castries dock

This is a major crude oil depot for all of North America

We got to visit the helipad to check out the Pitons

Is he looking at me?

It was quite windy

Approaching the Pitons, where it was raining

Nice reflection

Getting pictures before the rain moved in

Cool palm trees on the beach

Lots of people gathered on the helipad

Natural frame

Pretty sunset

In front of the Pitons

We got a pretty close view

These are from our balcony

The captain spun the ship in front of the Pitons

Towel bunny