St. Vincent's Rentals, Next Time Mick Jagger's Place

In my last article for GoNOMAD I wrote about a great visit to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I mentioned that if you got big bucks that Mick Jagger’s pad was available for rent, however the SVG can be done reasonably and you can still feel like a star. I have just opened the February issue of Travel & Leisure and under the user’s guide is a bit about the Jagger’s Stargrove rental on Mustique.

It is filled with family photos and mementos from the career of the front man for the Rolling Stones. It is six bedrooms done Japanese style complete with koi pond and Jacuzzi. A jeep and a staff of six are also included in the $16k weekly rental. To rent it a detailed description of all guests is reviewed, including occupations by Mick himself. I probably could have gotten that info from Richard Mineards when I called in my segment to Around the World Travel Radio with Richard and Arthur von Wiesenberger about SVG. If you cannot or do not want to spend $16k on a rental check out my article or radio segment on GoNOMAD, save some bucks for Branson’s estate on Necker Island, it costs $329k a week.

"Brother" King and the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary in the Grenadines

One of the best parts of traveling is meeting people that make a difference and Orton “Brother” King is one of the best. “Brother” King runs the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary on Bequia Island in the Grenadines. Hawksbill sea turtles have a survival rate of one in a thousand and are dangerously going extinct. Brother King works hard at changing the odds and has been doing so for the last twelve years. In his salt water ponds he takes collected hatchlings and raises them up for release. They start out eating canned tuna fish then move on to small fish. At age three they are released back into the sea, over 2000 have been released. Brother marks his turtles with a hole in the back of the shell and his babies are found all over the Grenadines. Standing by the largest pool I was amazed at how friendly a hawksbill can be, they loved having their shells lightly scratched. It is quite obvious that this man loves his cause, check his site and see how you can help.