Favorite Beaches: St. Lucia Edition.

I can't narrow it down to one. We had a two-week trip of a lifetime to St. Lucia in February 2010. Hubs volunteered at the hospital in Vieux Fort (temporarily located in the Olympic cricket stadium after the hospital was destroyed in a fire the previous September) for 10 days, and then we spent a week traveling around the island. St. Lucia is beautiful and colorful and relaxing.

Sandy Beach, the beach in Vieux Fort where I spend all my time during the first week (while hubs was treating kiddos and delivering babies) was fantastic. It is a destination for kiteboarders and kitesurfers, but also has bright blue-green water and the perfect little beach-side restaurant, The Reef, where we ate breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.

Our home base during the second half of the trip was La Haut Plantation. I cannot recommend this bed and breakfast enough. It was amazing, the location couldn't be beat, the food at the restaurant was the best we had during our entire trip and the staff were helpful and super sweet. Oh, and this was the view from our room.

Just down the hill from La Haut, before you enter the city of Soufriere, is a small road that leads to Anse Chastanet Beach. I think this may be my favorite beach we visited in St. Lucia, although it was more crowded than the others because of it's proximity to the Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain Resorts. The snorkeling was unbelievable.

One day we took a drive way down off the main road to visit Jalousie Beach. The amazing thing about this beach is that it is right between the two pitons. I snapped only a couple pictures before we decided to take shelter from the wind. This was a total exposure goof, and is one of my all-time favorite photographs.