2-28-2022 St Kitts (St Kitts & Nevis)

We arrived this morning in St. Kitts, after breakfast we started with a morning local tour and visited the Fairview Greathouse, a classic Plantation House and Botanical Garden. In the afternoon we took a ride on the Scenic St Kitts Railway. Until 2006 St Kitts was one of the biggest producers of Cane Sugar, but with the production of sugar beet pushing the price down it was no longer sustainable to produce cane here. The primary sources of income for the island now is tourism and Education. There are five Universities on the island including two medical schools and a veterinary school.



Coming into Port in St Kitts


Down the pier and into town


Town Square, they named Piccadilly Circus after the square in London



War Memorial





18th Century Mahogany Table and chairs


Living Room


Master Bedroom



The "Men's Room" where they would discuss business, politics, etc. and smoke their cigars
women were not allowed in this room


Demonstration of how they roast Peanuts on the island. They fill a ceramic pot with 
volcanic sand and start a fire under it.  When it is good and hot, they stir in the peanuts.
They gave us a small bag of roasted peanuts to try. Very good.


The Kitchen Building


The botanical Garden was filled with a variety of flowers




The Pool




Just Monkeying around.
Back in town there was a guy with a local guy with one of the local monkeys.  These monkeys were brought over by Africans as pets and flourished here. Now the number of monkeys on this island is estimated at 60,000 with Human population at 40,000






A Ride on the St Kitts Scenic Railway



Fresh Water Lagoon, Primary Water Supply for the Island



Our Tour Guide and Narrator



Ruins of an old Sugar Mill


Native Dancers



Black Sand Beach


One of the old Sugar Plantations


Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean




Brimstone Hill Fortress built by the British during their ongoing battle with the French


The mongoose was introduced to St. Kitts to control the rats in the sugar fields, like they did in Hawaii.
But, like Hawaii, no one told them that the Mongoose hunts in the daytime and rats are nocturnal. The mongoose, rats and monkeys go after the egrets babies and eggs in their nests, so now the egrets have 
adapted by nesting in these trees that have long spiky thorns.  In the evening there are hundreds of egrets in these trees.


As we left St. Kitts, we passed her Sister island of Nevis.

St. Lucia

Comments

  1. Debbie T.March 4, 2022 at 2:51 AM

    St. Kitts is even more stunning than the other islands!! WOWZA!! The colors are unbelievable!!
    LOVE the photos with the little monkey. He's so TINY!! Looks like Colin found a new friend. So FUN to see these photos!
    Debbie

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