The ship is visiting two ports today, the first is Kingstown this morning, 0700 until 1230. Peter and I are not tour escorting again, (Yippee), and we've been before but it's always nice to look around.
St Vincent is the largest island in the Grenadines, which are part of the Windward Islands, which are part ot the Lesser Antilles, and about a third of the island is taken up by the volcano La Soufriere. Apparently the Grenadines are one of the most popular destinations in the world for snorkelling and diving. We've visited one of the beaches before, (see previous blog posts), and with the traditional hot blue sky and white sand, it was fantastic afternoon.
The island didn't let us down for todays visit, we were greeted with a rainbow.
As we got ashore, we were joined by Robin (the Whale and Dolphin lecturer)and his wife Chris, so we took them to see St George's Anglican Cathedral, famous for the stained glass windows.
The angel window was commisioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her grandson, but she rejected it because the angel was dressed in red, so that's how it ended up here.
Opposite the relatively plain wooden cathedral is the Roman Catholic church, a mad collection of architectural styles.
It's a quirky place to look around, filled with plants and flowers, nooks and crannies. We really like it.
One of the things about the Caribbean is that wherever we look, the insects, birds and animals are different to what we're used to. Amongst other things, we saw Smooth Billed Annis, unusual butterflies, blue and green lizards, egrets and cowbirds. And this Green Heron which was good enough to hang around for while so that we could take a decent picture
It wasn't long before it was time to go back, a couple of pictures to give the feel of the streets of the city.
So that was Kingstown. We're sailing on this afternoon and should arrive at Bequai at around 3pm.
St Vincent is the largest island in the Grenadines, which are part of the Windward Islands, which are part ot the Lesser Antilles, and about a third of the island is taken up by the volcano La Soufriere. Apparently the Grenadines are one of the most popular destinations in the world for snorkelling and diving. We've visited one of the beaches before, (see previous blog posts), and with the traditional hot blue sky and white sand, it was fantastic afternoon.
The island didn't let us down for todays visit, we were greeted with a rainbow.
Opposite the relatively plain wooden cathedral is the Roman Catholic church, a mad collection of architectural styles.
It's a quirky place to look around, filled with plants and flowers, nooks and crannies. We really like it.
One of the things about the Caribbean is that wherever we look, the insects, birds and animals are different to what we're used to. Amongst other things, we saw Smooth Billed Annis, unusual butterflies, blue and green lizards, egrets and cowbirds. And this Green Heron which was good enough to hang around for while so that we could take a decent picture
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