St. Kitts on a Caribbean cruise (photos)
From the archive. Published April 19, 2017. Details may have changed since.
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01 View of sweeping Half Moon Bay on the Atlantic side of St. Kitts, seen from Monkey Hill. © Special to Cruiseable -
02 Smoke from a cannon volley at Brimstone Hill Fortress? Nope. A brushfire below in Sandy Point Town, St. Kitts. The island of St. Eustatius looms in the distance. © Special to Cruiseable -
03 Drone image of the narrow beach and coastline of Frigate Bay in St. Kitts, looking north. © Special to Cruiseable -
04 Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts was designed by British military engineers and built and maintained by African slaves. © Special to Cruiseable -
05 View of the Prince of Wales Bastion at Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park on St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
06 Drone image of Frigate Bay in St. Kitts, with the Atlantic on the far side and Caribbean on the near side. © Special to Cruiseable -
07 The Timothy Hill lookout, with the Atlantic at left and tamer Caribbean at right in southern St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
08 JD Lasica: "We met Marvin, a personable taxi driver, and arranged for him to give us a daylong tour of St. Kitts." © Special to Cruiseable -
09 Windstar Cruises' 310-passenger flagship Wind Surf in St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
10 View from the citadel atop Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts, which stands nearly 800 feet above the Caribbean. © Special to Cruiseable -
11 Brimstone Hill Fortress is a well-preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site in St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
12 The aquamarine waters of Frigate Bay in St. Kitts (drone photo). © Special to Cruiseable -
13 Bell at Brimstone Hill in St. Kitts, the largest and best preserved fortress in the Caribbean. © Special to Cruiseable -
14 The interior of Fort George Citadel at Brimstone Hill in St. Kitts, one of the best preserved historical fortifications in the Americas. © Special to Cruiseable -
15 The Infantry Officers Quarters of Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
16 Ruins of the Artillery Officers Quarters at Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
17 Ruins of the Jumbie Barracks of Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
18 During a snorkeling expedition from Leeward Island Cruises on St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
19 Houses line the coastline of St. Kitts. © Special to Cruiseable -
20 The ruins of Wingfield Estate on St. Kitts include a sugar factory and mill, rum distillery, great house, cafe and gift shop. It dates to 1625. © Special to Cruiseable -
21 Drone image of pretty Frigate Bay in St. Kitts, looking south. © Special to Cruiseable -
22 Drone image of the coastline of Frigate Bay in St. Kitts, looking north. © Special to Cruiseable
I’ve now been to St. Kitts and Nevis on a Caribbean cruise twice in the past three months: in December on Silversea’s Silver Spirit and late last month on Windstar Cruises’ Wind Surf. They were quite different experiences, and I’m creating this Visual List mostly with my photos from my Wind Surf sailing, which ended April 1.
Here’s a 360-degree video of my ziplining experience in St. Kitts – you can move the video right, left and downward as it runs.
On Silver Spirit, I booked ziplining in the morning and loved the four-segment ziplining adventure through the island’s tropical rainforest. After that, I headed off on a catamaran and snorkeling excursion.
On our Wind Surf trip, I encountered Marvin, an engaging taxi driver, on the pier and booked his time to drive me and my traveling companion, Janet, around the island. Unlike last time, we headed to the pretty southern end of St. Kitts, where you can see the Atlantic and Caribbean side by side. There, I launched my Phantom 4 drone on Frigate Bay and captured photos and video of the beach and mesmerizing turquoise and aquamarine lagoon.
Following that, we spent an hour at Brimstone Hill Fortress, a national park overlooking the Caribbean that is perhaps the best preserved historical fortification in the Americas, dating to 1690. It was built by the British with slave labor as a bulwark against the Spanish and French. In its heyday, the fort was known as “the Gibraltar of the West Indies” for its imposing height and seeming invulnerability.
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