St. Lucia’s first national park is a 44-acre compound chockfull or history as well as natural beauty. It was once home to Amerindians, and it’s also been a pirate hideout and military base: Jambe de Bois, a wooden-legged pirate, once called the area

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St. Lucia’s first national park is a 44-acre compound chockfull or history as well as natural beauty. It was once home to Amerindians, and it’s also been a pirate hideout and military base: Jambe de Bois, a wooden-legged pirate, once called the area home and it’s home to Fort Charlotte, now a college but once the site of some of the fiercest fighting between the French and the British in the late 1700s. The park’s Interpretation Centre is filled with artifacts and a multimedia display on local history. The Captain’s Cellar Olde English Pub lies under the center and feels like an 18th-century English bar – so head here before or after hitting the park’s splendid white sand at Pigeon Point Beach off the north shore. The park is also the site of the Sandals Hotel, and the whole place is connected to the mainland via a causeway.

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