A Day on Nevis - Superb

WE LOVE NEVIS. Here is why:

We took the Sea Bridge car ferry to Nevis

 

 

 

Lot's of unusual signs

 

 

 

 

 

Found a beautiful beach a few miles from the ferry dock.  Of course, as usual, there was no one there but us.  The water was crystal clear, warm and a sandy bottom.

 

 

 

A very typical church here with accompanying cemetery.  The shutters on the windows are opened on Sunday, there is no glass, just open air.  The graves are somewhat above ground.

This was the last operating sugar mill (before the modern era).  I am certain it was constructed and operated by slaves.

 

 

A huge set of gears turned wind power into the force that would squeeze the juice out of the sugar cane stalks using the press below.

 

 

Once the juice was extracted it was diverted to a series of metal vats called "coppers" where the sugar cane juice was boiled to reduce the water content became thicker and thicker.  Some would end up as molassas and the other would be dried to become sugar crystals.

 

 

 

 

 

I love tidal pools.  Here is a smallish one.

What Nevis has that St. Kitts does not are grazin donkeys alongside the roads.  The only ones in St. Kitts that we have seen were tethered.  These are running free, although they are likely not wild.

We will definitely return to Nevis!