After 2 weeks of work, I was ready to PARTY! I even got a new dress in Martinique, so I was totally prepared. St. Lucia as a weekly Friday Night Street Party, and we arrived just in time to enjoy with our friends from Tally Ho and Gilli. The Street Party is mostly for the locals, with food, and drink, and everyone is out enjoying themselves. You get a real feel for going to a local event. Sadly there wasn't much dancing, but on the way back to the boat, I was able to enjoy the music of a local steel drum band practicing. They were really quite good.  

The next day we sailed to the Grand Pitons, and on the way stopped for a snorkel at Anse Cochon. Blair and I were sitting in the cockpit, and I noticed a fisherman swimming in the water pulling his boat. behind him. I asked if he needed any help, he said yes, as he had run out of gas. Blair ended up taking the fisherman to his village in the next bay over to get gas. Blair asked if this happened often, and the fisherman said yes, guys go missing all the time, At least we were there to help this time.  I don't want to imagine what would have happened if he hadn't been close enough to shore to have us help him, as we weren't close to the village.

Now it was onto Soufiere. Soufiere is a cute village at the base of Grand Piton. If you get a mooring ball in the south end of the bay, you're right under the pitons. It's also a great place to check out of St. Lucia. We enjoyed a couple of days here. One of the local dogs decided he needed a walk, so he joined us on our hike to Superman Falls. We're now into the rainy season, so we enjoyed a torrential downpour on our hike, but it was well worth the adventure. One the way we saw a mango tree, so Karen from Tally Ho went crazy and we got tons of fresh mangos. There was so many, I ended up cutting them up, and freezing them.

Blair and I are always on the hunt for sodas, so I decided to go to the little local market. It's very hard to find diet soda anywhere in these islands. Low and behold, I found several cases of soda at this little market. I bought every case, and we used the dolly we had just purchased in Martinique for a second time. 

We checked out in Soufiere and moved to Pitons Bay for our last night. Sugar Bay is a lovely resort. Our friends on Gilli had told us the food is expensive and not that great, so we went to just enjoy a cocktail and the ambiance with Tally Ho for our last evening on St. Lucia. It was a perfect end to a lovely 5 days on St. Lucia.