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Charlie
May 18, 2007

When I peep out of the shutters this morning I see a large crab scuttling under the decking of the veranda. Now, though we are two minutes walk from the beach that seems a bloody long way for a crab.

We decide to do the same walk we did the other day but this time coated in factor 25 and return unscathed and find a lone dead cockroach in the room. Which reminds me that I have yet to have any nasty "big, tropical, creepy-crawly" incidents! As I have been convinced that I am going to have to arm wrestle a big hairy spider whilst I'm here. Got a photo of Charlie, one of the dogs taken in by the Reef. He wasn't pleased!

Charlie: One of the Reef dogs

In the afternoon we walk the other way, along the beach, into Vieux Fort for lunch at the Old Plantation. But it's being refurbished... so we wander through the back streets along the side of an elaborate shanty town of corrugated iron which for some reason makes me think what Dickensian London must have looked like. Lord only knows why. The heat off the tarmac is incredible so we pop into Pat's Bar, which is a large wooden structure that wouldn't look lost on a Swiss mountainside. The beers don't touch the side. So we have a couple more.

This evening we meet Naomi and Adam, a couple from Devon, visiting his mum. Sharon. Now a resident in St. Lucia she has shacked up with Arthur, a Lucian that wants visitors to see the island as it is. A garden. He digs some sugar canes from the deepest recesses of his pick-up, hacks them apart with his cutlass and offers us them to suck on.

As the bar closes for the night we realise we have left our sun-loungers on the beach and, wracked with guilt, Sam works off our "debt" by clearing up glasses. Sharon let's on that Adam likes football and has a TV in his hotel room. So before long I have found somewhere to watch the FA cup final in the morning.

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