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Greta's blog (Day 7, February 22nd 2017):

Today is another relaxing day. We slept in and then had a breakfast of croissants (frozen dough baked in the oven) with bananas, bacon and OJ. Greta also had an egg, and Mike had yogurt earlier. While sitting on the balcony that morning, we put out pieces of crackers to entice some birds to snack. The Lesser Antilles Bullfinch was bold before the crackers arrived and definitely came and had a few snacks. Another bird – a thrush of some kind, also stopped by an had a few crumbs, all the time flicking his tail and checking out the bits of food with his long, tapered bill. A pair of blackbirds also came in for a snack.

We next headed down to the beach for a few hours of relaxing and reading with the waves loudly crashing nearby. We thought about taking out an SUP or even a small sailboat, but there were “no swimming” signs on the beach and that seemed to mean that water toys would not be available for the day. In the spot near the breakwater, it was calm but maybe a rip current was in effect out in the more open areas. There were kids playing on the water trampoline & such but not as many swimmers as we’ve seen on other days.

Then we headed into Castries to check out the marketplace. Today is Saint Lucia Independence Day (in 1979 they broke away from Great Britain) so a number of the vendors stalls were closed. It was interesting seeing locals everywhere dressed in the colors of Saint Lucia – Yellow, White & Turquoise Blue. We did run through the stall, where everyone wants to sell you something – most people were friendly, at least to our faces, although one woman INSISTED on selling Greta a wooden turtle (every stall had them, so we were perusing them) and when we turned her down multiple times, she got very rude and mumbled about rude tourist who ask to see something and then when presented with it, don’t want it. Sorry lady – definitely not coming back to see you – you had ONE turtle and it wasn’t what we were looking for. We did pick up a turtle at another stand – not the greatest one but at that point we didn’t want to go back to an earlier building for something slightly better. It will fit in nicely with Greta’s travel-turtle collection. We also got a pretty necklace & earrings made from volcanic stones that were strung by one of the vendors (Anthony Daniel). Mike found an outstanding wooden parrot to hang on the wall – piece together with different colors of wood and we met the man who made it. We also got a little angelfish woven by one of the many palm leave weavers you see everywhere. Then we hit the food court area – once again, almost fully closed down – plus it was late in the day. One woman was open, so we ate at Juliette’s Place – two plate dinners. There was bread fruit, fried plantains (or green bananas, not sure which), macaroni, some vegetables, other noodles and a big piece of mahi mahi on top. That food was quite good, and we shared her last pop, a Coke Zero. We each got a Piton beer at a local stand earlier in the shopping experience, and then at the end of it all, stopped at a local street bar & had another one, all the while watching all the locals on the streets – gearing up for Independence Day.

Once we got back to our resort, we found that 15 of the 16 parking spaces were filled (not a lot of people drive themselves to the resort apparently, although the estates have their own parking areas) and we couldn’t park in the remaining spot because someone in a Daihatsu didn’t understand the concept of parking between the lines. Pretty rude to do when you (1) have a rental vehicle and (2) can see that there are very limited spots available. The security gate directed us to park where the shuttles are all parked nearby – so the only challenge will be tomorrow morning remembering to go to the right spot to get the car.

Back in the villa, we decided to relax for a couple hours on our balcony and get in a bit more reading. Our birdy friends returned and were braver yet when crackers came out. Then we took a slow stroll down to the beach with Mike taking a number of pictures on our walk down. The camera ran out of batteries, of course, on our way down, so no big camera shots of the sun set. But we found a great spot to watch the sunset on an almost completely deserted beach, and enjoyed a couple of Mamasitas before the sun went down. We stopped at the minimart for a few provisions (chutney, hummus) and then back up to the villa for the night. We’re just going to take it easy and do crackers/cheese/hummus/chutney with a little wine before calling it a night.

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