St. Vincent

February 7, 2009 - St. Vincent

How lucky are we! We are back in St. Vincent.


We had arranged prior to take Wayne's tour that was organized through our Cruise Critic Group prior. http://whalbich.googlepages.com/home a link to their website. We met up with our group on the pier and Wayne showed up right on time.

Our beautiful ship taken from our tour boat

Joanne and Hansel with their daughter.


We went right up to this cave, check out the rock formation.

This is a picture of the same rock but up close and using the zoom.

Very sharp and lots of colors.

We sailed up the coast and came across many fishermen, seems like a very tranquil job.

Beautiful scenery

Wayne took us a black sand beach where we searched for diamonds.... I didn't find any, guess I will just have to go to Diamonds International instead.

Here is a little crab that was just walking around minding his/her own business when we came to bother it.

Here is Wayne's boat, very nice and lots of space for all of us. Wayne served us unlimited drinks! And some were stronger than others.

Here we are on the beautiful black sand beach... the sand is black because of the volcano.

Now doesn't this look so relaxing. I really love my underwater camera it can really capture the moment. There was only our small little group at this beach. Priceless.

Here is some of the gang playing around in the water. So much fun, didn't want to leave.

Now unfortunately my battery has died again! Yup didn't get a chance to charge it fully after Trinidad and St. Vincent had to pay for it. I only brought the one camera and should of brought both so I of taken more pictures.

After visiting the Diamond Black Beach, we headed up the island looking at the beautiful coastline.

We then docked at the Pirates of the Caribbean movie set. Which has unfortunately rotted away mostly except for a few items that have been saved by a business person who has a restaurant set up. Lunch was included in this tour and we all sat down and patiently waited. I ordered the fish and it was very yummy but a little to heavy and too much food for me. And I got to burp it the entire way back (is that too much info?).

A short tour of the area, where I might add we ran into many of the people from the ship we knew who had arranged taxi tours from the pier - obviously everyone is shown the old movie set. But truly I didn't think there wasn't too much to see there. I know Wayne talked about how sad it was that the government didn't keep up the set and make a more tourist attraction.

After lunch we headed down the coast and looked for whales, we did see one in the distance but that was it. We did some dolphins.

Wayne pulled up to the beach that was known for snorkeling. He was rather disappointed as the water had gotten very murky which sometimes occurs if a storm just passed or is brewing. We did get some snorkeling but it was not the best.

By this time I am getting tired and something I ate is bothering my allergies, all I want to do is get back on the ship and take an antihistamine and crash and that is just what I did.

It was a great day, and I highly recommend Wayne's Tour.

St. Vincent

St. Vincent - January 24, 2009

Today is Saturday and Bernie woke up early and went up on deck to watch the ship come into port. He came back raving about how beautiful it is here and the rainbow he just witnessed was stunning.

We head out on foot with a map and a spring in our step.

Man it is crowded, oh yeah it is Saturday, market day. You can barely walk, everyone has come down to the city to sell their goods. It just seems like it is the same stuff that everyone is selling.

We did get a kick out of people with a pickup selling boxes of cookies and the crowds at this pickup surprised us. Don't know how much they were selling for but obviously getting these cookies here is difficult. Man I need to quit my job and go sell cookies in St. Vincent.

Here is the market, everyone was so friendly and helpful. Of course we look like tourists, with our camera and map and inquisitive looks on our face.

One of the places we want to visit is their botanical garden. We hear it is walkable, and since tomorrow is the trek up the volcano we felt we should warm up a bit. It is walkable but it is uphill and it is a good hour walk and don't forget the heat.

It is free to get into, but then there are guides that can show you around. We met up with a nice guide and for $4 each he would show us around. We were very glad to go with a guide because otherwise we would of missed so much. Our guide explained what every plant was and the history of it.

After the garden we started the walk back down the hill but we wanted to get off the main drag and came across this hut with two gentlemen sitting outside. One yells out, want to try one of our beers! We look at each other and said "yup". Bernie went to get the two beers, but the guy could only find one and had to go searching at neighbours to find another one.... very resourceful. We sat there on the wooden plank with the two guys chatting about their country and our country.

We ended up back down towards the market. It was a little quieter and we were both hungry. There was a small trailer that was selling Roti, sounds good so we share one. It melted in your mouth and the flavours!

The port has all kinds of shops and the usual stuff, t-shirts, booze, jewlery and they even had some lovely kids dancing. But the ship dominates from everyone in town.

At sailaway we all headed to the Aft and checked out the stunning views and not to mention the rainbows. It actually made an entire circle and reflected into the water.

Tonight Vera and Ken organized a group dinner for a bunch of us at Sabatinis. It was wonderful eating with everyone and getting to know everyone more.

Another great day, another great port.