Castries, St. Lucia

We'd been to St. Lucia in 2013, so click that link to see what we did that time. (St. Lucia starts in the middle of that page.)

Love beginning the day with a beautiful sunrise.

 
For this port, we were escorts on shore excursions. Dean was an escort on a rainforest canopy ride and more.

 
A Purple-throated Carib hummingbird.

 
Ginny's tour started at a plantation-style house with a great view.

Our ship was the smallest of the three in port that day.
(This is one reason that we signed up for tours: too many people in a small town.)

 
Next stop was this colonial house that has been turned into an artisian cooperative from batik to chocolate.

Another building with a fine view of the island.

 
Some of the cotton species native to the Caribbean islands are perennial and can live for 20 years or more, so they were an important crop to the indigenous poeples here.

 
Moving to the third location, which was a small farm, where they demonstrated the making of cassava flour.

 
Our guide holds up a nutmeg nut which is the source for both nutmeg the spice and mace. All parts of the prickly pear cacti were used by early peoples and today, it's still widely consummed.

 
They demonstrated how manual saw mill works.

While we wee wandering around the farm, they had baked up some casava cakes for us.
So those were our adventures here.