To got to one of our favorite places on St Lucia, you have to turn off the main road, and travel a few miles down a very steep, poorly paved side road, until you come to a more-lowly-still unpaved road through the trees. Here you either hold your breath and hope you don't meet any one coming the other way, or park your 4WD in the shrubs and walking a quarter mile to Anse Cochon.
And this is what you will see: a calm, tawny little beach anchored by a little resort and a gathering of fishermen at the ends.
Catamaran tours stop by for a few hours, but the beach is so hard to get to, it doesn't feel crowded.
Sea birds watch fisherman bringing in the catch for the Friday night fish-fry at Anse La Raye.
It was fun to sit an watch them work.
We wanted to have a relaxing vacation, but avoid the usual tourist-trap, sequestered feel of so many resorts catering to foreigners. At times, being in an outsider in poor a foreign country outside of the cocoon of an expensive resort was, I'll admit, intimidating and at times a little scary. Maybe a little too much adventure! It didn't feel that way here. This was a beautiful place to be able to just be, and swim. I watched a scared little hermit crab scuttle into the shade. I felt a school of tiny silver flying fish go skipping past me through the bay.
To got to one of our favorite places on St Lucia, you have to turn off the main road, and travel a few miles down a very steep, poorly paved side road, until you come to a more-lowly-still unpaved road through the trees. Here you either hold your breath and hope you don't meet any one coming the other way, or park your 4WD in the shrubs and walking a quarter mile to Anse Cochon.
And this is what you will see: a calm, tawny little beach anchored by a little resort and a gathering of fishermen at the ends.
Catamaran tours stop by for a few hours, but the beach is so hard to get to, it doesn't feel crowded.
Sea birds watch fisherman bringing in the catch for the Friday night fish-fry at Anse La Raye.
It was fun to sit an watch them work.
We wanted to have a relaxing vacation, but avoid the usual tourist-trap, sequestered feel of so many resorts catering to foreigners. At times, being in an outsider in poor a foreign country outside of the cocoon of an expensive resort was, I'll admit, intimidating and at times a little scary. Maybe a little too much adventure! It didn't feel that way here. This was a beautiful place to be able to just be, and swim. I watched a scared little hermit crab scuttle into the shade. I felt a school of tiny silver flying fish go skipping past me through the bay.
