Saturday, March 20th
We arrived in St. Vincent and the capital is Kingstown, our port. The island is 18 miles wide and 11 miles long and located in the Windward Islands. St. Vincent is a volcanic island with a volcano that dominates the northern third of the island.
We started our tour with Ashalyn and drove around the downtown area. There were many people out shopping in the Kingstown market. Various fruits and vegetables were available from vendors. Since this was Saturday it was very busy and heavy traffic. The roads are narrow and not in very good condition. We continued thru the city to the Botanical Gardens, which is a 20-acre estate, which is the oldest in the Caribbean, started in 1765. There are breadfruit trees that are descendent from the ones brought to the island by Captain Bligh in 1793. We continued onto Fort Charlotte, 600 feet above sea level, which was a former British Garrison completed in 1806 and named in honor of Queen Charlotte. Then to a local museum with artifacts from the pre-Columbian era, some as early as 160 A.D. and finished up with a drink at the Grenadines House, a hotel over looking Kingstown.
We came back to the ship to have lunch in the dining room for the first time and sat with two other couples, one from St. Louis and the other from Ontario, Canada. It is nice to meet other people and share conversation.
We arrived in St. Vincent and the capital is Kingstown, our port. The island is 18 miles wide and 11 miles long and located in the Windward Islands. St. Vincent is a volcanic island with a volcano that dominates the northern third of the island.
We started our tour with Ashalyn and drove around the downtown area. There were many people out shopping in the Kingstown market. Various fruits and vegetables were available from vendors. Since this was Saturday it was very busy and heavy traffic. The roads are narrow and not in very good condition. We continued thru the city to the Botanical Gardens, which is a 20-acre estate, which is the oldest in the Caribbean, started in 1765. There are breadfruit trees that are descendent from the ones brought to the island by Captain Bligh in 1793. We continued onto Fort Charlotte, 600 feet above sea level, which was a former British Garrison completed in 1806 and named in honor of Queen Charlotte. Then to a local museum with artifacts from the pre-Columbian era, some as early as 160 A.D. and finished up with a drink at the Grenadines House, a hotel over looking Kingstown.
We came back to the ship to have lunch in the dining room for the first time and sat with two other couples, one from St. Louis and the other from Ontario, Canada. It is nice to meet other people and share conversation.
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