When you drive down the street of St Eustatius it feels like you are 30 years behind the US and Canada. It really does! At times it feels like your in a 3rd world area. The roads and houses are falling apart, there are no street lights, street signs are bent over, pop and beer cans along the side of the road. It's crazy to see and experience life this way. With no resort on the island you truly get to see how the locals live. We still love our Caribbean island.
Downtown Statia, still has some of the original roads built by slaves 150 years ago. The weird thing is that they are the smoothest roads on the island.
It amazing me how much history there is that is relatively undisturbed by tourists or anyone really.
Island houses. There are some scary shacks that I am even scared to WALK by let alone live in. House here seem to always be under construction. People will add a floor to their house, month to month, or some years have been years in progress. A lot of them will build suites for students to rent to pay for their own... too bad we are all leaving soon!
All the house here are built out of cinder blocks. The cement walls help keep the house cooler. Josh said its weird not seeing any wood on the houses except for the roof.
Here are a couple panorama shots that Josh took with his iPhone from the top of a hill close to our house. It's the full 360˚, pretty neat!
St Eustaius police station.
St Eustatius Public Library.
And anther beach compilation picture to end it off!
No comments:
Post a Comment