St Lucia - oh how I love thee

 
St Lucia was in a word, perfect. I am in love with that island, and it has nothing to do with the fact that Jake and Vienna (and Jake and Tenley... and Jake and Gia) hung out there during one of the last episodes of last season's The Bachelor. Although it did look pretty incredible from my couch too. St Lucia is lush and beautiful. It has everything you could want from beaches to mountains, mud baths and hot springs. And we did it all. We walked off the boat and found a local company selling a land/sea tour for what we considered to be a reasonable price and they promised to take us to all the places we were interested in seeing, so we went for it. It definitely didn't disappoint. We took a speed boat tour around part of the island along with about 10 other people and the views were incredible.

Here's where Jake stayed.

I could definitely spend more time in this Caribbean paradise! We eventually made our way to the town of Soufriere where we transferred to a van which took us on a beautiful drive to the mud baths.

The baths are naturally heated by the island's active volcano, La Soufrire. They say the mud is rich in natural minerals, also due to the volcano, so it's supposed to be very therapeutic. Our slightly sun burnt bodies had a hard time getting in the water because it was so warm, but it was great once we were in.

Hee hee hee! I love when Mike tries to look serious in pictures - he can't help laughing. His tiger face isn't too intimidating :) I wouldn't mind having a mud bath every day - even if it was stinky. After the mud bath we were able to "rinse off" in a nearby waterfall, which was also sulfur heated. I'm not sure how much cleaner the water was. It was a gorgeous setting though - the little walk through the rain forest was awesome.

Our van then took us back to the boat which ferried us over to a small beach near the Pitons. The views of the Pitons were so pretty from the boat. 

St Lucia is full of natural wonders. The beach time was perfect. We even snorkeled and saw some barracuda! Overall, a perfect day. I can't wait to go back!