# 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)

[![02-83 Soufriere trip.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-soufriere-trip.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-soufriere-trip.JPG)

**The climb to Soufriere**

[![01-84 Bequia Whale Boat.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-bequia-whale-boat.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-bequia-whale-boat.JPG)

**At the whaleboat blessing in Bequia**

[![01-84 St Vincent Marathon.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-st-vincent-marathon.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-st-vincent-marathon.JPG)

**Downtown Kingstown for the SVG Marathon**

[![01-84 SVG Marathon - John Hopkins PCV.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-svg-marathon-john-hopkins-pcv.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-svg-marathon-john-hopkins-pcv.JPG)

**Runners in the Marathon**

[![02-83 Kingstown Harbor.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-kingstown-harbor.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-kingstown-harbor.JPG)

**Kingstown harbour**

[![image.png](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/Ip2image.png)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/Ip2image.png)

**Climbing Soufriere**

[![02-83 Soufriere Climb (3).JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-soufriere-climb-3.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-soufriere-climb-3.JPG)

**Climbing Soufriere**

[![05-83 Mustique Excursion - Grenadine Star.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/05-83-mustique-excursion-grenadine-star.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/05-83-mustique-excursion-grenadine-star.JPG)

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

[![02-84 Boy outside his home in Fancy SVG.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-84-boy-outside-his-home-in-fancy-svg.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-84-boy-outside-his-home-in-fancy-svg.JPG)

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

[![02-84 Home in Sandy Bay.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-84-home-in-sandy-bay.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-84-home-in-sandy-bay.JPG)

**Typical Vincentian housing. This one in Sandy Bay.**

[![04-84 Banana Harvest.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/04-84-banana-harvest.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/04-84-banana-harvest.JPG)

**Our one and only attempt at growing bananas.**

[![06-84 Shaker Church Baptism Edinboro.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/06-84-shaker-church-baptism-edinboro.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/06-84-shaker-church-baptism-edinboro.JPG)

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

[![07-84 arnival Tuesday John Tom Play Mass.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/07-84-arnival-tuesday-john-tom-play-mass.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/07-84-arnival-tuesday-john-tom-play-mass.JPG)

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

[![07-84 Carnival Tuesday Costume (2).JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/07-84-carnival-tuesday-costume-2.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/07-84-carnival-tuesday-costume-2.JPG)

**Some of the Carnival costumes were pretty elaborate**

[![10-83 Richmond.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/10-83-richmond.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/10-83-richmond.JPG)

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

[![08-83 Arnos Vale Airport.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/08-83-arnos-vale-airport.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/08-83-arnos-vale-airport.JPG)

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

[![11-82 Community meeting - Sligoville.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/11-82-community-meeting-sligoville.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/11-82-community-meeting-sligoville.JPG)

**The Training Centre in Sligoville, Jamaica**

[![11-82 Spanish Town.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/11-82-spanish-town.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/11-82-spanish-town.JPG)

**Spanish Town, Jamaica - where our homestay was**

[![image.png](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/yanimage.png)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/yanimage.png)

**Kingstown, St. Vincent - Our Peace Corps home**

[![Cooking SVG Style - Yabus on coal pot.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/cooking-svg-style-yabus-on-coal-pot.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/cooking-svg-style-yabus-on-coal-pot.JPG)

**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.**

[![Fruit from our yard.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/fruit-from-our-yard.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/fruit-from-our-yard.JPG)

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

[![View from road to Lower Edinboro.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/view-from-road-to-lower-edinboro.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/view-from-road-to-lower-edinboro.JPG)

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

[![IMAG0044.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/imag0044.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/imag0044.JPG)

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