Brother King'sTurtles

Park Bay: a dream of a palm-lined beach, azure waters lapping goldens sands, the surf held at bay by the ring of coral reefs. Blink; it's still there. This is on the Atlantic , windward, side of Bequia. the quiet waters are protected by Brute Point and the reefs. We went there to visit Br. King's "Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary". Here Hawksbill and Green turtles are hatched and given a "head-start" before they are tossed into the ocean for the rest of their 200 year lives.
A walk back along the palm-fringed sea brings us to The Spring Pottery and Art Gallery. The old sugar mill. closed as late as 1940, was a ruin. But it's now carefully restored and is a cool stone pottery workshop and gallery with lovely hand-crafted things from bright clay sculpure to raku burned pottery.

We end our stay at Bequia with a good dinner at Frangipani restaurant, just down the sand-strand path from "Gingerbread", After about an hour we get to order. "No lobster. No conch. No dorado." the waitress then announces. (return to go; do not collect $200!) So we quickly order today's special, which they do have. Calloloo (spinach) soup, gambas, rice, christophenes, chick peas. Lots of it. And when we're stuffed to the gills, lime pie. Good food, and now I don't have to eat for a week!