Blogs from Basseterre, Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Central America Caribbean

Tuesday July 9 - The ferry I took from Nevis to St Kitt's was a much smaller boat than the one I had taken over to Nevis. Because of this, I decided to take the seasickness meds again this morning, but it was still calm and I doubt it was needed. This boat was much faster, and we arrived in 30 minutes. I spent a little time looking for the Leeward Island Charters office, to see if I can find out if they were running their snorkeling trip tomorrow. I didn’t find it, or it wasn’t open yet, I’m not sure which. Either way, I went to the bus station and got on a minibus that looked to be leaving soon. The “bus station” is just a place where the minibusses end their routes and hang ... read more

Monday, June 2, 2014 Super excited today. We are visiting the island of St. Kitts for the first time. I have heard that it is a beautiful island, however never experienced it before. Cindy and I are going on our own tour today, a rain forest hike. Michael and Brian are doing a sea kayake trip and Jenny and Marcus are hiking a 3000 foot volcano. We have a packed day of fun stuff. Cindy and I ate breakfast again in the dining room this morning. I had scrambled eggs again and Cindy had eggs benedict. She says the eggs benedict is spicy. After a quick breakfast we heading off the ship meet our tour on the pier. We noticed there were lots of very large rocks on the shoreline next to where the ship was ... read more

Still in North Bay but thought I would give you another history/geography lesson re one of the places we visited on the cruise. The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is a two island nation that has a prime minister and is governed as a parliamentary democracy, very much like Canada. These islands are situated on the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea. St. Kitts was originally named St. Christopher after explorer Christopher Columbus and eventually abbreviated to St. Kitts. The residents, called Kittitians, speak English with a Caribbean accent. St. Kitts is the larger of the two, spanning 68 square miles. The island covers 23 miles in length and at its widest point five miles across. There are varying terrains that range from semi-arid to rain forest, from flat to nearly impassable. Most of the ... read more

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. It was such a lovely lovely afternoon. In about 3 hours, we circled the entire island. Toured through the city of Basseterre. Visited Caribelle Batik at Romney Manor House. Drove below the hill where Brimstone ... read more

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 be a good day for it and Jody decided to join me. We wandered the streets and explored various churches. One, a Catholic cathedral had it's doors wide open and we went in and looked ... read more