White House Bay Anchorage
December 21 - 26
After
checking into customs in Basseterre, we spent a couple of days doing
laundry, provisioning, and finishing some repairs on the boat. We
found a beautiful calm anchorage in White House Bay where we camped
out for the week of Christmas. We relaxed on the boat for the first
couple of days and snorkeled around the anchorage. White House Bay
is home to a beautiful reef that lies close to the shore, and many of
the St. Kitts snorkeling tour boats make a stop here with their
tourists. Gene found an old cannon from the 1700s which was
originally part of the Brimstone Hill fortress on the northern part
of St. Kitts. Unfortunately for the reefs, we saw a number of lion
fish – these fish are non-native poisonous fish.
St.
Kitts & Nevis islands are home to wild monkeys which mainly hang
out on the southern end of St. Kitts (near our anchorage) since it's
less populated on this side of the island. We could see monkeys
running along the shore of White House Bay and hanging around the
bushes just off the road.that are destroying
the reef all throughout the Caribbean and they don't have any
predators (aside from humans who catch them and cook them up).
Approaching St. Kitts
Kalalau anchored in White House Bay
Gene snorkling around the anchorage
Lion Fish
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