Giant Tortoise Letterbox
Castries, St. Lucia

Planted by rtrw on December 2nd ,2002

Difficulty - potentially hard to get in to, but easy to find
Time - 3 minutes if the door is open, longer if you have to make your
own way.
Directions to starting place - Find your way to La Toc Road. Part
way up is Bagshaw's Studios where visitors can watch original
silk-screen patterns being created. Beyond that is the battery

Details you should know - I didn't get permission to plant this, but
it's technically outside the battery. I don't know how often the
battery doors are opened, but It was Mrs. Bagshaw of the silk screen
place who gave us our tour. It might be worth tracking some info
about a tour before heading up there. I was on a tour bus and
everything was arranged for us.

Details you don't need to know - Just a few things I found
interesting. St. Lucia is the birthplace of two nobel laureates. Sir
W. Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1979, and poet
Derek Walcott won the 1992 Nobel Prize for literature. About 150,000
people inhabit St Lucia with 60,000 living in its capital, Castries.
Our tour bus was big enough that it had to back up the hill to the
battery. There is room for a couple cars to park. They have
displayed some cool pieces they found on the ocean floor.

Clues:
Find your way to the tunnel. There is a sign that says machine gun
implacement. Head down between the shell store and the artillery
general store. The door to the outside is locked when no one is
there.
As you exit the tunnel turn left and take 10 steps. On the left side
of the path near a tree with vines growing on it is a rock and some
debris. Under the debris is the thing you seek.
This is an orphan box and I don't know that I'll ever get back there
again. Any maintenance help is appreciated. Thanks.