standby relocations 01243-641721 (phone/fax in the UK) or 758-484-3880 (on St. Lucia), www.nbi.net/stlucia/riposte/chart

The village of Laudat, four-and-a-half miles northeast of Roseau, offers access to most parts of Morne Trois Pitons National Park, a 17,000-acre protected natural area that was designated a World Heritage Site in December, 1997 (the first enlisted natural standby relocations site in the eastern Caribbean). The name Morne Trois Pitons translates as three-peak mountain, and the huge volcano on the park s northern edge appears to have three peaks when you look at it from anywhere along the west coast.

01243-641721 (phone/fax in the UK) or 758-484-3880 (on St. Lucia), www.nbi.net/stlucia/riposte/charter.html. Destination standby relocations St. Lucia (DSL) has a fleet of 15 monohull and catamaran sailboats that sleep up to 10 passengers. Owners Ulrich and Sandra Meixner are Austrian transplants who love sailing the Caribbean seas.