West Indies Adventure: Basseterre, St Kitts (12/17/2023)

Sunday, December 17, 2023

View from the Viking Sea in Basseterre,
capital of St Kitts and Nevis

Port Zante Gateway

Once again we boarded a small Coaster bus for the included shore excursion, Historic Basseterre and Fairview Great House.

St George's Anglican Church (1869)

Cenotaph War Memorial (1926, for WWI)

Fairview Great House (1701, to house the French military
commander; damaged by termites and
restored in 2008) is furnished in colonial style

View of the Caribbean Sea from the front lawn of Fairview

Dining room side of the Great Room

Ladies' Parlour

Note the pin holding up the double sash window frame (KSS)

Gentleman's Study

A gentleman's wig and box

Master Bedroom

The Water Closet/WC

Master Bedroom balcony view of the front lawn

Original Bath with a monstrous 1.5 m/5' deep tub
made of volcanic stone with no drainage, thus
it had to be filled and the water removed manually

Cobblestone Courtyard

Original Kitchen with a volcanic stone
and brick hearth and oven

Display of restraints in the Fairview
Slavery Exhibit in the cellar

Swimming pool

Part of the 2-acre botanical garden, and a military battery

Nicely labeled botanical specimens; this is a
Persea americana/Avocado Tree

The Cook's Room

The Cook's Room was set up for a cooking demonstration

Bismarckia nobilis/Areca Palm
from Madagascar (KSS)

A yellowing Wodyetia bifurcata/
Foxtail Palm

Anacardium occidentale/Cashew Tree

Adenium obesum/Desert Rose

The Horse Mount now holds a potted plant

Eichhornia crassipes/Common Water Hyacinth

Back in Basseterre, we did not have the time to walk back to the ship for lunch between excursions.

St Kitts letters in the large tourist shopping complex,
where we found a coffee shop for a quick meal

I had a Ting (Jamaican grapefruit-
flavoured sparkling drink) and
a chicken pattie

Kent had a Carib beer (HQ in Trinidad & Tobago,
but also a brewery St Kitts) and a chicken pattie

Next: St Kitts Scenic Railway.