Wednesday
15 Jan – St Kitts
26°C
E
Force 5
We were up early to see Costa Mediterranea and Thomson Dream join us at Port Zante in St Kitts, although Dream berthed across the bay at a small container terminal.
We
had booked the St Kitts Railway so had to assemble on the dockside at 8.10.
Each bus took one carriage load so was very well organised. Some were returning by coach but we had chosen to return by catamaran so those of us doing
the cruise as well as the train had wristbands so it was easy to separate us
out. We drove through Basseterre to the
station past industrial estates and new roads. The port area was pretty with
small coloured buildings with the usual jewellery shops and rum shacks.
We
boarded the small double-decker carriages - No 4 for us. The downstairs had small
wicker chairs and tables with bar and toilets, upstairs were banked seating
down both sides.
We set off through beautiful green countryside. It was an
interesting trip and the weather perfect. We travelled through lush
countryside, past old sugar mills, villages, over high bridges with views of
the coast. It took around 2 hours.
During the tour we were served with rum punch and sugar
cake. At the end, we left the train and drove to a small jetty to board the
catamaran. We had to remove all our shoes and put them into boxes and step over
onto the boat. It was a lovely relaxing motor back (sadly the wind was unsuitable to sail) sitting soaking up the sunshine and
drinking Carib beer or rum punch.
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| Dancers |
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| Skyscrapers! |
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| Pelicans fly over the ship |
Back
at the terminal, Caryll and I wandered through the small shopping area for a while. It was very hot so I was back on board at 2.30 and soon
sunning myself on deck and watching the pelicans flying overhead.
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| St Kitts car park |
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| Costa Mediterranea |
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| Oceana & Costa Mediterranea |
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| Sunset over Port Zante and Basseterre |
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| Thomson Dream left first |
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| Then Costa Mediterranea |
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