On St. Kitts we have friends and our friends have a car. What a luxury. Mike and Renee, from the catamaran Jacumba, are calling St. Kitts home for the time being. Mike is working for a development company building a beautiful new resort called Christophe Harbour. Mike and Renee showed us some of their favorite sites on St.Kitts.
Mike and Renee at the Ship Wreck Bar and Grill
The scenery is great and the Green Monkeys come visit the guests.
The Green or Vervet Monkeys were brought to St. Kitts approximately 400 years ago. They were brought by French settlers from East Africa during the slave trade, intended as pets. Today their numbers exceed the human population on the island by almost 3:1. They are cute but also a nuisance. They eat the local crops one bite at a time. They are a bit skittish but not too difficult to see if you know where to look.
Christophe Harbour is in the early stages of development. Mike took us four wheeling on the soon to be golf course
Building on a Caribbean Island can be tricky. The political environment can be fickle and many times projects are never completed. Many islands have “battle scars” of an abandoned developer’s dream.
Included in the Christophe development are small bungalows on Sand Bank Bay. Facing the east, the beach is cooled by steady trade winds and the water is crystal clear. The beach is generally empty
Irresistable!
St. Kitts is also known for it’s many beautiful plantations. Ottley plantation was built in the 19th century as a sugar plantation. Today it is a grand inn.
You can find hints of the past in the lush landscape.
Beautiful colors everywhere.
Small cottages are hidden in the mango trees.
The pool is a contrast of old and new .
Turtle Beach lies at the southern end of St. Kitts. Renee introduced us to one of her favorite beach hang-outs, Spice Mill. We can see the attraction, the lounging is great. Small restaurants and bars sit along the beachfront and in the background you can see the island of Nevis, a mere 2 miles away.
Back on board Fine Line we are happily anchored next to Jacumba in White House Bay.
We haven’t mentioned our trip from the Virgin Islands to St. Eustatius. We would rather not talk about the 15 hours of motoring into the wind and arriving in St. Eustatius to find the only anchorage rocking and rolling from side to side. A 3 hour nap was all we could stand before heading further south to St. Kitts. Fortunately there is only 24 miles between the two islands and so we continued into the wind, salty and tired. A few days in the Port Zante Marina and we were good as new.
From St. Kitts we are heading to the volcanic island of Montserrat.
Anne and Steve
S/V Fine Line
3 comments:
Don't see how you motored that long into seas like that! We turned around in a 3 foot chop in the Bay with the wind on our nose at Solomons. St. Kitts looks heavenly and what a calm anchorage! Enjoy your friends and sights!
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