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 Flat Stanley Explores St. Kitts

Primary School Visitors are Scientists for the Day

Bourryeaux Primary School visits the lab.

Caribbean Sunset

A January Sunset

Dieppe Bay - Quaint Fishing Village

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

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. ...

Hurricane Gonzalo

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

Canada Hills Panorama