WINNER Announced!!

Judy Brunelle

We have a winner!!

Judy Brunelle correctly identified the photo of Porter and The Wolf sitting at the bar at Port'er's Island Thyme.  This photo and accompanying article was printed in the October,2011 issue of 

Caribbean Travel and Life, page 46.  

October 2011:  C a r i b b e a n T r a v e l & L i f e- Page 47

Quirky outposts:

There’s nowhere quite like

Salt Cay. Its six square

miles boast five churches,

a 12-student schoolhouse and who

knows how many donkeys ambling

along dusty and largely deserted

byways. A century and a half ago,

when the island was the economic

hub of the TCI’s salt trade, more than

1,000 people lived here; now there are

barely 70, and livestock have the right

of way. But there couldn’t be a more

perfect for location for Porter’s Island

Thyme, the restaurant and bar that

has become Salt’s de facto hub and a

much-loved watering hole for hardy

islanders, adventurous expats and

tranquility-seeking visitors. Affable

Texan Porter Williams is the master

of ceremonies, a retired exec who

spent 18 months transforming this

19th-century salt raker’s cottage into

a hybrid bistro/bar/art gallery/town

hall/movie theater. Colorful Haitian

paintings line Island Thyme’s rafters;

papier-mache fish and sea creatures

are strung from the ceiling; ABBA

and Jimmy Buffett Christmas tunes

emanate from the CD player; and a

sign reads, “No Shoes, No Smoking.”

While most patrons come to catch up

over “the coldest beer on island,” an

iron-stomached few are here to earn

a coveted zookeeper T-shirt, awarded

to those who can down a series of

four animal-themed shots that starts

with Wolf, a secret concoction that

reportedly includes “wolf testicles

from an Oriental food store in

Torrance, California.” Like we said:

There’s nowhere like Salt Cay.

Congratulations, Judy!!!