During the last week of November, Meg & I had an amazing opportunity to travel to the island nation of Saint Lucia. For those of you that are completely clueless about world geography like me (or clueless about geography in general like Meg!), St. Lucia is located just off the coast of South Amercia (near Brazil). April & Michael (you’ll meet them in the next post) asked us to travel with them to St. Lucia to photograph their destination wedding experience! And what an amazing experience it was!

We arrived in St. Lucia on Monday afternoon, and after a 2.5 hour white-knuckle cab ride to Rodney Bay (on the north end of the island), we finally arrived at our hotel called the Coco Palm: Coco Palm Resort. Although Saint Lucia is an incredibly small island (something like 25 miles long, and only 4 miles wide), the cab ride still took well over 2 hours due to the mountains, and the fact that a very small percentage of the roads are paved.

Below are some of the images from our day trip around Saint Lucia!

This is a shot of the world-famous Marigot Bay in Saint Lucia. Marigot Bay was made famous by the movie Dr. Doolittle, which was filmed in Saint Lucia.
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This image shows the Piton Mountains in the background…the country produces a local beer named “Piton Beer”!
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The next few images were taken in a tiny fishing village called Anse Le Raye. The people depend on the ocean for food, and the local economy is driven by the conch trade.
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Being the gullible tourists that we are, we also decided to visit all of the landmarks on the island. One such opportunity was the Botanical Garden in Soufriere (along the western coast of Saint Lucia). The next three images were taken in the Botanical Garden!
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Another surreal experience was meeting the “Boa Man”! A common profession in Saint Lucia is for the local people to wander into the rainforests that cover the island, and collect boa constrictors from the wild. They carry them back to the major roads traveled by tourists, and stand along the side of the highway working for tips. This guy was nice enough to allow us to photograph him! Meg wanted absolutely no part of this one, and waited in the car!!! I am deathly afraid of snakes, but I decided to brave it. After all, you can’t photograph snakes by the side of the road everyday!
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April & Michael were staying at the Grand Saint Lucian Resort, part of the Sandals family, in Saint Lucia. This image was taken from a small rock jetty just down the beach from the resort. You can just make out the resort (the flag poles) in the background.
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Stay tuned for the images from April & Michael’s wedding!
~ Charles