St Vincent

St Vincent (Young Island Cut)



St Vincent is a very un-touristy place and very poor. We needed to get the main alternator fixed (we are using the spare) and the anchor winch and do some repairs. So it was onto the local bus which was the usual rolleroaster ride at 80 miles an hour round blind bends where people grabbed their children out of the way and dogs were used to jumping out of the road pretty quick. We held on for dear life as usual while the locals just gaze out of the window and don't seem to notice anything remotely dangerous might happen!




























Repairs on dingy


I was waiting for Keith in the alternator fixing place having a quiet beer on this quiet lane where the peace was shattered about every 30-60 seconds by a car or bus hurtling past as if it was on a motorway. When suddenly some local men set up a cricket game in the middle of the road and began to play! To my amazement the traffic never once slowed but just careered in and out of the game while the players stopped throwing the ball......sometimes! (I only had to duck once).

The cricket lane!

Sunset in Young Island Cut

Andy and Sue whom we know from our sailing club were also in St. Vincent. We had a good couple of nights with them in Canaouau and kept up the tradition here in St. Vincent having a sing-a-long with Sue's guitar one evening (she was playing of course). I took them both for a dive which they had never done before and they were brilliently enthusiastic about it afterwards talking of doing a course etc.

Andy enjoying his dive

Sue and me

Andy and Sue's boat 'Spruce'

Wallilabou Bay

With succesful result on the anchor winch and unsuccessful one with the alternator, we left Young Island Cut and headed further north up the leeward side of St vincent ot Wallilabou Bay.

The boat boys in St Vincent row out to try to get you to enlist their help from a couple of miles out but not using outboard motors like most of the other places, but rowing like mad. They then row back alongside of you hoping to be able to help you to tie up when you get there.

Boat boy giving us a hand

Those of you who are fans of Pirates of the Caribbean would probably recognise the bay for it is here that Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead man's Chest was filmed. The buildings were built by Disney as part of the set and some buildings were built on top of exisitng buildings to make a re-creation of the pirate town Port Roayl during the 18th Century. It it really is a typically Caribbean bay.

Port Royal re-creation at Wallilabou Bay


We walked to the waterfall at Wallilabou were we had water torture! Great to have fresh water, if a little bit of a battering......but worth it!!