Take a journey to the Caribbean as you read this ode to the pleasures of island life. It is written as a bedtime poem for young and old alike. Imagine the boats zipping around the bay and see a pirate ship come sailing in! As night falls, the bay quiets, and all becomes calm and serene.

Author Dale Watten spent several years living in the U.S. Virgin Islands and travels to the island of St. Lucia every year. She is a retired horticulturist, teacher and mother of three sons. She now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and youngest son.