St Kitts
2/23/2011
Wednesday we were in St Kitts, the last of five islands in five days. We took excursions in all five islands and had some really good tour guides. Wednesday, we had “King William”, a self described St Kitts know it all. He was born on the island, lived all of his life on the island and knows everything about it. We know because he told us so. He also showed us an old windmill built in the 16th century to generate electricity. We are pretty sure that nobody was generating electricity two centuries before ol’ Ben Franklin, the kite and the key. He also told us he had been married 20 years to the same woman, has five children, 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. One of his kids is 37 years old. Math and numbers just may not be his strongest suits.
This tour was in a taxi, a small minibus sort of taxi. The rear springs had a noise like a pack of wild dogs a long distance off. When sugar cane stopped being grown on the island because of the competition of beet sugar grown in the States and the UK, the government sent sugar workers to a few seminars and then granted them franchises for taxis. There are a lot of taxis on St Kitts! Gas is between $5.25 and $6.00 US on St Kitts as it is in most of the Caribbean.
Our tour took us to a Batik factory with a 350 year old Saman tree that shades over ½ acre, and then on up to Brimstone Fortress. Brimstone Fortress was built 300 years ago by the British, but by slaves. It is really well preserved and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Our entertainment on Wednesday night was the “International Crew Show”. The waiters, passenger services staff, personal trainer, and other crew sang to us, and entertained us for over an hour. It was fantastic.
Thursday and Friday are at sea, not much happens. We land in Ft Lauderdale on Saturday and hope to meet friends from home for lunch and maybe a museum. The next blog entry will likely be on the weekend.
John & Co
Wednesday we were in St Kitts, the last of five islands in five days. We took excursions in all five islands and had some really good tour guides. Wednesday, we had “King William”, a self described St Kitts know it all. He was born on the island, lived all of his life on the island and knows everything about it. We know because he told us so. He also showed us an old windmill built in the 16th century to generate electricity. We are pretty sure that nobody was generating electricity two centuries before ol’ Ben Franklin, the kite and the key. He also told us he had been married 20 years to the same woman, has five children, 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. One of his kids is 37 years old. Math and numbers just may not be his strongest suits.
This tour was in a taxi, a small minibus sort of taxi. The rear springs had a noise like a pack of wild dogs a long distance off. When sugar cane stopped being grown on the island because of the competition of beet sugar grown in the States and the UK, the government sent sugar workers to a few seminars and then granted them franchises for taxis. There are a lot of taxis on St Kitts! Gas is between $5.25 and $6.00 US on St Kitts as it is in most of the Caribbean.
Our tour took us to a Batik factory with a 350 year old Saman tree that shades over ½ acre, and then on up to Brimstone Fortress. Brimstone Fortress was built 300 years ago by the British, but by slaves. It is really well preserved and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Our entertainment on Wednesday night was the “International Crew Show”. The waiters, passenger services staff, personal trainer, and other crew sang to us, and entertained us for over an hour. It was fantastic.
Thursday and Friday are at sea, not much happens. We land in Ft Lauderdale on Saturday and hope to meet friends from home for lunch and maybe a museum. The next blog entry will likely be on the weekend.
John & Co
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