St. Lucia

Friday we made it to St. Lucia.  We decided to stay in the marina at Rodney Bay since  it was so reasonable.  It was a bit of a challenge to get the dogs checked in because of course I’m always missing some piece of paper that they need.  I tried to do everything ahead of time via email but it’s still a challenge.  The dogs always cost more to check in than the boat and us together but I’m sure they enjoy visiting all of the islands too.  I guess St. Vincent is even harder so we may just end up leaving them in St. Lucia-just kidding, they’re with us through it all.  We were only going to stay in St. Lucia for two days but since it was a weekend, we had to get an export permit from the vet and she wasn’t able to get it to us until Monday.  So we stayed an extra day, which wasn’t bad.  I could get used to staying in a marina with the warm showers, pool, wifi….. but I would probably miss sailing and seeing all of the other wonderful islands and I’m sure it would get boring after a while.  
If this first picture looks familiar it’s because you probably saw it on Pirates of the Caribbean if you saw the first movie.  I guess it was filmed here.  

Monday night we headed to the south end of the island so we could get and early start to head to St. Vincent.   We stayed in Laborie bay, which is a small fishing village.  It was a really friendly place with a nice beach.  

Wes caught a nice Mahi on the way to St. Lucia and Max thought it was very interesting

This guy sales herbs, fruits & vegetables from his boat.  He even grows some of it on top

The beach in Laborie Bay where we anchored last night