A couple weeks ago, while I was wandering the craft vendor stalls, I started talking with one of the vendors. He offered to arrange an island tour for crew if I got together the group of people, for a really great price. So today, a group of crew - Logan (theatre tech & my cabin neighbour!), Allison (karaoke host), Denny (pianist), Simon (jazz trio), Chris (showband), Peter (piano bar), Jody & myself - took an island tour of St. Kitts. Even though I'd previously seen a lot of the island in other visits, there was a lot of new things today. [View Full Entry]

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Thursday, January 17, 2008 The things kids tell you during reading assessments.... Yesterday I was finally able to begin reading assessments with all of the 1st and 2nd grade students at the primary school where I work part time. I’m really curious to see how the results come out overall, and also excited to start the reading program with those who need the most help. I had a couple of interesting conversations in the process though…. Some of the kids came in pretty nervous or really quiet(we pulled them out of class one at a time), so I would talk to [View Full Entry]

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We are currently in our first cruise of the Destiny's new itinerary. Thursdays we used to go to St. Lucia, but now we're in St. Kitts. I'd originally had plans to go to the beach today with a friend, but that sort of fell through and then it started raining anyway, so that worked out just fine. When I was on the Legend, we came to St. Kitts quite a few times and I went to various beaches and toured some sites. But I'd never actually walked around Basseterre, the town right where the ship docks. So I decided today would [View Full Entry]

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It has been a busy few days on Nevis since we arrived on Sunday evening. The Island was first settled by Indians way back around 100BC, some of whom were thought to be cannibals, or so I have been told! The name comes from a visit by the explorer Christopher Columbus; the day he arrived he must have been suffering slightly from the heat, because despite the sweltering temperatures and humidity (I have spent most of the last 3 days dripping with sweat), he thought the top of the mountain was covered in snow and so named the island ‘Nieve’ after [View Full Entry]

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As I write this to you, we are just completing our first passage aboard Ocean Star, leaving from Tortola and heading to Nevis. It has been a long and quite rough 30 hours of travel with our first taster of life aboard a yacht underway. The crew has been split into 3 teams, called rather unimaginatively 1, 2 and 3, and over the course of the voyage each team has taken it in turns to be on watch. What this means is that you spend three hours on deck either steering the boat, on the bow watching out for passing traffic [View Full Entry]

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Day 5: Nevis -- February 21, 2007 Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery As we saw in St. Barths, with the Mick Jagger imitator, a mirror image of something great is just that, or is it? Nevis, though in the French West Indies, is British, and looked to us anyway - a lot like Dominica. There was a rain forest, few people and the people were incredibly friendly - the ones we met anyway...Like Dominica, it teased us to explore further. It seemed to be a place where nature prevails and commercialism is prohibited. Twenty years ago in St. Maarten [View Full Entry]

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Leatherback pictures! Central America Caribbean » St Kitts and Nevis » St Kitts By Matt and Lauren April 19th 2007 Matt and Lauren Brock Hello everyone! I uploaded these pictures about a week ago after a long and wonderful night of beach monitoring. We've been wanting to put some text with it but don't seem to be getting around to it very quickly and I'm excited to post the pictures... so I'm going to go ahead and do it without the text! There's actually quite a bit of information in the captions, and soon we can post a couple more, along with an actual [View Full Entry]

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Okay! I have decided after a lot of comments that I never work from all of you, to write an entire entry on what I do in a day, or voyage. Trust me you will be sorry that you doubted how much I work. This is something that Jeanette, Catherine, Richard, Kristina, Marlize etc… talk about all the time. First I will tell you what it is like to live onboard. I know that I have mentioned it a few times but let’s revisit what I mentioned before. The environment that I am currently in is very intense. And the funny [View Full Entry]

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And then there were six! After a very early-to-bed Friday evening the six guys that were left all met for breakfast before 9am. We knew we had a taxi booked for 11.45am so after breakfast we headed to the swimming pool to catch the last couple of hours of sunshine of our wonderful holiday. There was a sense of dejection among the group as we all knew our time on this wonderful island in the Caribbean was coming to an end. Our preferred taxi driver, Mr Sackville Grey, dually arrived at the 11.45am booked time, we said our final fairwells [View Full Entry]

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blogger Dougo Today was the big game of the group, Australia vs South Africa. Having splurged for this match and bought Category 1 tickets for USD$90 each we were hoping for A) A good game B) Some shade. We got both. We were in the last row of a shaded stand which meant we had possibly the best view in the whole stand. After being a little concerned about the narrow pilons blocking a tiny bit of our view, we soon realised what a god send the seating position was. We had shade from the 35 degree sun and we [View Full Entry]

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