We set sail at 5 pm last night, and arrived in St. Lucia at noon. We had never done a ship-sponsored tour, so we battled the excursion line to book a volcano & sulfur springs/mud bath tour (the world’s only drive-in volcano) for $49 pp for 4.5 hrs but it was full (along with the diamond mineral waterfalls and warm mineral baths for $45/4.5 hrs). So, we opted for the “Pirates Extravaganza” for $89 pp/4hrs. With as exciting as this sounded, it was a huge disappointment. Brig Unicorn, the 140 ft, actual ship used in the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean” picked us up in the cruise-liner port of Castries and sailed us to historic Pigeon Island, where the French battled the British. The tiny brick walls were hardly worth noticing (I was expecting something magnificent…like the beaches & battles of Normandy, France). We were then left on the “beach” for an hour (the snorkeling was not completely awful as the shoreline was lined with large rocks & housed a good amount of larger fish), at which time the ship picked us back up and returned us to the harbor. It was neat to see the boat, and they passed around pictures of Jonny Depp with the crew, but it was about 5 mins cool and not 4 hrs (and $200) cool. It was way, way too touristy for us. We instantly decided that this was the last and only cruise tour we would ever do. Our Fun Ship set sail again at 8 pm and we will arrive in Barbados at 8 am. St Lucia’s official currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar.