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RULE 5: The couple that plays together stays together. On our third day in St. Lucia, we go kayaking, and when a BodyGuard asks if we want to try “the double,” I sense my other half wants to go it alone so… I insist on the double. William, an expert paddler, remains unaffected by my bossy back-seat kayaking in a way I haven’t seen before. As he happily points out our private balcony in the distance and a tall ship on the horizon, I am filled with regret about using his last razor to shave my legs and quietly resolve to be a nicer person. RULE 6: Try a change of scenery. My first glimpse of the Pitons is of two jagged peaks poking up behind hazy green mountains like the ears of a giant cat, and as the boat rounds the final bay, I see them in full: two soaring spires covered in tropical forest rising from the sea to over 700 metres. William talks excitedly about the fish in the National Marine Reserve at the base of the mountains, where our next destination, the Jalousie Plantation, lies sandwiched on a Unesco World Heritage Site. William snorkels away, surrounded by hundreds of yellow-and-black kingfish, while I stand on the pier documenting every moment on camera. Jacques Cousteau returns a few hours later, breathless. “Did you see all those yellow fish? I think they thought I was the king fish!” he says, pointing to his very yellow bathing suit, and flops down next to me to tell me about his face-to-face encounter with a barracuda. |
