Various and Sundry Pictures, some of which you have already seen

We took a couple of hundred slides when we were in St. Vincent and I took a few prints as well.  The slides have been tranferred to a digital image (not great, some of them) but they give you a flavour of what life in St. Vincent was like. (They are in no particular order)

The climb to Soufriere

At the whaleboat blessing in Bequia

Downtown Kingstown for the SVG Marathon

Runners in the Marathon

Kingstown harbour

Climbing Soufriere

Climbing Soufriere

There was a LST from WW II that was used for sea transport for "excursions" (trips).  This one was to Mustique

A boy at his home in Fancy, a far north village of most Carib natives.

Typical Vincentian housing.  This one in Sandy Bay.

Our one and only attempt at growing bananas.

The "beach" in front of our house was sometimes used for baptisms (Shakers, in this case)

Carnival was a big event and some PCV's got into the action directly ("Play Mass" - John and Tom)

Some of the Carnival costumes were pretty elaborate

Richmond was on the Leeward coast - a starting point for a hike to Soufriere

Arnos Vale Airport in St. Vincent - notice the road that cuts directly across the runway!

 

The Training Centre in Sligoville, Jamaica

 

Spanish Town, Jamaica - where our homestay was

Kingstown, St. Vincent - Our Peace Corps home

We cooked many a meal on this coal pot (bottom) and the Yabas pot (above).  We still have the Yabas but the coal pot got shattered on the trip home.

We had many fruit trees on our lot and sometimes we could harvest the bounty before someone else did!

 

Some of the housing in lower Kingstown.  That is the hospital in the background.

I could fill an entire page with the tropical flora we saw in St. Vincent