The rest of St. Lucia remains relatively unspoiled,
a checkerboard of green-mantled mountains, valleys, banana plantations, a bubbling
volcano, wild orchids, and fishing villages. There's a hint of the South Pacific about the
island, as well as a mixed French and British heritage.
A mountainous island of some 240 square miles, St. Lucia has about
120,000 inhabitants. The capital, Castries, is built on the southern shore of a large
harbor surrounded by hills.
Native son Derek Walcott was born in Castries. His father was an
unpublished poet who died when Walcott was just a year old, and his mother was a former
headmistress at the Methodist school on St. Lucia. In 1992, Walcott won the Nobel Prize
for literature. He prefers, however, not to tout the charms of St. Lucia, telling the
press, "I don't want everyone to go there and overrun the place." Alas, his
warning has come too late.
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