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Sailing on Fortitude (July 18-23)

(179 pics) Photographs from the second third of our 2004 trip to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, when we stayed on the sailboat Fortitude. Please read the journal before looking at the pictures (link).

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    Moonhole on Bequia
  (Jul 19, 2004, 11:08am)

This is a picture of the famous "moonhole" development on Bequia's south shore.  Moonhole was a natural development build in the 1960's. The dwellings were made of nothing but stone, wood and whalebone (no windows, only openings in the stone).

This is a picture of the original moonhole house.  It was named because the full moon would set, twice a year, though the hole in the natural arch.  Rumor says that the development was abandoned after a large rock came crashing through the bedroom ceiling.
    Moonhole ruins on Bequia
  (Jul 19, 2004, 11:06am)

Another picture of the moonhole development.  This picture shows some of the other hours (now in ruins), further up the coast (east) from the original moonhole house shown in the last picture.
    Ruins on the western end of Bequia
  (Jul 19, 2004, 11:10am)

I took this picture of a dwelling high in the hills on the southwest point of Bequia.  I do not know if this building is currently in use, or has been abandoned.