Saint Lucia

Cradled in the heart of the Caribbean, Saint Lucia is an island where natural drama meets refined charm. The iconic Pitons pierce the skyline, framing stretches of golden sand and serene bays. Inland, lush rainforests hide hot springs, botanical gardens, and tumbling waterfalls, while the coastline offers world-class sailing and secluded coves. With a cultural blend of French flair and British tradition, Saint Lucia entices travelers with its rhythm, flavors, and breathtaking beauty, a destination as romantic as it is adventurous. This is the number one place people choose to honeymoon in the world.

Soufrière

The Pitons

Green Fig

Soufrière

This little town is a photography playground, bright houses, fishing boats, and street scenes bursting with color. But then there’s the Sulphur Springs. This is the only “drive-in volcano” in the world, which sounds like it should come with a milkshake and fries. Instead, you get clouds of sulfur steam and mud baths that make you look ten years younger according to the legend. Your camera will love the dramatic shots, but your lens will fog up faster than your car windshield in the middle of a make-out scene. Soufrière is home to the Pitons, these twin volcanic peaks are basically Saint Lucia’s influencers—always looking flawless. While I was here, I stayed at the Green Fig, photographed above.

Laborie

Laborie is a quiet fishing village full of locals and a quite a few people who moved here and work in the hospitality industry. Like many of the towns we drove through, it was a reminder that a simple life is all that we really need. Many of the houses here had banana trees and shirtless kids smiling and running around small houses full of just the bare essentials. Personally, I'm always keeping up with the best cameras to do my job, and my hobbies like this blog, and the best music stuff to record with, but it was a refreshing change to see people who didn't care about any of that. It had me dreaming about passing the days just growing enough food to eat and then going down by the beach with my family.

Piaye

Piaye looks like it was designed by someone who’s been lurking on Pinterest for years. White sand? Check. Beach resort? Check. Palm trees, that if they spoke English would say things like “I woke up like this,” and "I grew up here, you tourist." Check. My mistake, that was Sugar beach in Soufrière. Piaye had none of that, but the beach was my personal favorite for photography, it's far less known and looks more like the Algarve in Portugal than the Caribbean.

Rodney Bay

A town of emotional blackmail from the sky. Every evening, the sky turns into a melodramatic painting: glowing gold, fiery orange, then lavender that looks straight out of a dream sequence. Just when you think it’s peaked, it adds more colors. Anyway, good luck finding a better place to honeymoon than this. The locals of Rodney bay have a very different accent than the posh British accent in Soufrière, that sounds more fun and Jamaican. Both sides offer very different experiences as well, in Rodney Bay many locals will try to sell you drugs or trinkets and seem like they are just keeping afloat or are homeless, and in Soufrière the locals are more likely to try and sell you tours and own multiple properties. It's nice to experience both sides, because they offer a glimpse into both sides of life, as well as the island. Are we the product of our environment? In one place motivated by negative ambitions to avoid having nothing, or in another place motivated by healthy ambitions to have more than we need or perhaps on another island we would be motivated to be more down the middle of those two? Either way, both sides of Saint Lucia have incredible beaches.