Pigeon Island National Landmark off the northern coast of Saint Lucia isn’t your average beach bar location: it’s a restored 18th-century military fortification where Admiral Rodney launched the 1782 Battle of the Saints that changed the course of Caribbean naval history. Jambe de Bois, named for the one-legged French pirate Francois le Clerc who used the island as a base in the 1500s, sits right in the middle of this jaw-dropping setting. Cold Piton beers on a restored fort. Views across Rodney Bay to the Atlantic. History literally under your barstool. The Bum has no idea how to rank this against a proper beach bar (there’s not much sand), but as a case for drinking in a historically significant location with a cold beer and a view that could make a pirate weep, it stands essentially alone in the Caribbean.
