The Culps of the Caribbean

Saturday's weather was blustery with the rain and the wind, although still 80 degrees. Once it cleared in the afternoon we made it down to the nearest beach which is about 1/2 mile from home.  The surf was all worked up from the wind. On Sunday, the weather was perfect.  We went down to Key's Beach which is about 4 miles away.  It is a very long stretch of a sandy beach that faces a wild Atlantic Ocean.  Amy spent a lot of time picking up beach glass.  My day was made when I spotted the trail of a sea turtle that had laid it's eggs the night before. To read more about the St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network click the link below: http://www.stkittsturtles.org/www.stkittsturtles.org/Welcome.html Lastly,  I had spotted a large boat that was parked on a street in town.  Amy wanted to see it.  Here it is:   Nope, not on a trailer. On the street.

The link below is a great video of St. Kitts shot from a helicopter.  My workplace can be seen starting in the lower left corner beginning at 1:02 and then moving to the center of the shot at 1:06.  The entire video is also nice. http://vimeo.com/63857848 Here is a screenshot from the video of my workplace.

My workplace sits near a cliff. A short walk down a path through the sugar cane behind it leads to the steps down to beach.  I explored it today.  The people at the office rarely go there and it is fairly inaccessible to the nearby villagers.  On the southern end it is rocky and on the northern end it is black sand. View from the top of the steps. Even on the calmest day the Atlantic generates 5-6 ft waves here.   A chunk of coral.     The northern end with the black sand.                   As this beach is rarely visited there is a collection of items that have washed up on shore that have fallen off of boats and such.  Along the high tide line, trapped amongst the drift wood are an unusual/comical number of sandals and flip-flops. This blog will be boring if I keep putting pictures of beach scenes on it.  So I will curtail that.