The Culps of the Caribbean

A January Sunset

Happy New Year 2016! Dieppe Bay is the northern end of the St. Kitts.  It has a reef-protected harbour and to it's east is the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent to the inlet of the Caribbean as the Atlantic makes it's way past St. Eustacius Island. We took a drive today.  From my favorite lookout just above Dieppe Bay looking East to Africa (too far to see from here) is the village of Dieppe Bay, On the shoreline you can see a church (w/white shutters) and beyond that the Golden Lemon hotel. Looking to the west, facing Jamaica (about 1000 miles away) and you can see St. Eustacius (about 10 miles away).  There are great crashing waves here as the Atlantic collides with the Caribbean. I learned today that tourist buses will stop here and take in the view.  As is typical on St. Kitts a couple of industrious local ladies have souvenir booths at this locale.  One woman said all of here stuff was made buy her.  She must own a factory in China.  The o...

The 6 great places tourists and college students won’t be at on St. Kitts I’ve read all sorts of articles from across the globe (mostly UK) about THE places you have to visit when on St. Kitts.   They are bullshit and crowded.   Here is the real list. Ross Vet Students, bless their hearts, by their very mob-ness can inadvertently turn a nice St. Kitts weekend locale into a booze-soaked, barking-dog serenity killer.   Here are 5, no, 6 places they nor 2500 of your newest cruise ship friends, won’t be on St. Kitts.   It will be just you and your companion and the beauty and/or history of St. Kitts. For added solitude there won’t be any local vendor trying to sell you authentic Chinese-made St. Kitts handicrafts.   BTW magnetite is not what the “Black Rocks” are made of.   Here are the locales + GPS coordinates: 1)    Fort Charles : A centuries old fort and the long lost little brother of Brimstone Hill.   A Grand entrance. ...

St. Kitts is that little chicken leg of an island near the eye of the hurricane.

From Undeveloped to Developing St. Kitts is widely considered undeveloped for the tourist industry.  This is despite that between November 1 and April 30, at least 1 (and up to 5) cruise ships dock here for the day.  Typical cruise ships carry 2500 passengers but it varies between 300 and 4,500 passengers depending on the ship.  A single day can bring bring 10,000 tourists to an island of 40,000.  Cruise ships are here for the day and those passengers that come on shore have about 6 - 8 hrs to get their sight-seeing completed.  "Undeveloped" also means that when a passenger leaves the cruise ship port (mall), there are really no retail businesses set up for visitors.  They are just regular stores that you would find in your town and they really don't carry souvenirs.  The cruise ship port (mall) area is a large collection of jewellery stores and t-shirt shops.  Of the 80 businesses, 65 are jewellery stores and 15 are t-shirt shops.  I am not...