St Kitts - Short and Sweet

After a bit longer than expected in Nevis we cut short our plans for St Kitts and just had a couple of beach days.  The sail was under 10 miles across the Narrows so we were settled and ready for a swim in Whitehouse Bay by lunchtime. It was a rocky bay so the snorkelling was pretty good although initially a little wary of a stingray which was about 1m across and almost 2m long! And he was looking at us! But enjoyed some of the other fish and kept clear of the jellyfish, the first we had seen since arriving in Caribbean.

Pretty sea fan

Jelly!

What is this caterpillar in the sea

We shared the anchorage with just a couple of other boats but this did include a large power boat which had range of the normal toys but we were quite impressed by the slide from the top deck!

What fun the slide looks

There was a beautiful sunset and we had a peaceful night.

Beautiful sunset

Next day onto Frigate Bay, a sandy beach which looked to be full of locals on a Sunday afternoon although we didn’t venture a shore or actually in the water but there must have been fish as we watched the brown boobies diving around the boat.

Sunday afternoon on local beach with not much going on

Brown booby chasing his dinner

The following morning on Basseterre, the capital of St Kitts, Mark had great delight in letting Amanda helm as the rain poured down around us!

Amanda getting wet!

It had stopped by the time we reach the rolly anchorage, we knew even if we had wanted to stay for the night this was not going to happen you could hardly stand us the rolling was so server.  So we had a quick look around the town, there was a new development of duty free shops selling mainly expensive jewellery and with no cruise ship in I don’t know why they opened and there were only a handful of people.   The main square was quite colonial and busy with locals, we had a quick drink to watch the world go by but then headed to check out.

The vibrant square at Basseterre

Oh if you visit and spot a man on the street with a smoothie cart, have one, delicious and cheap :)