s/v C-Time: White House Bay and Christophe Harbour, St. Kitts

April 25, 2014

Unknown to me, as I was sleeping in this morning, my wonderful husband loaded our folding bikes into D-Time. He had an outing planned. We took D-Time to land and a really, really nice boat dock in White House Bay to go for a bike ride to explore. As we were going up a hill I was thinking about all of those hours and hours I spent downstairs at work riding the stationery bike to get me in shape just for a moment like this - not so much! I could feel the burn, that's for sure.

We had read great things about the development of the land in Christophe Harbour so we decided to look around. As we made our way to the sea and Cockershell Beach we came across a bunch of monkeys. All along the road, but they were very skittish of humans. We got close a couple of times to get a picture or two but as you can tell below, they weren't great pictures.

As we returned to the dock we ran into Jamie Beck, Razo Construction's Senior Project Manager, of Christophe Harbour. Jamie shared with us the plans for the future of Christophe Harbour and about what had already been accomplished. The awesome dock that we had D-Time locked to was gorgeous. It was made 100% out of epae wood (more expensive and durable than teak wood). It had built in hammocks and the buildings that will house a beach bar were made out of the tin from an old sugar cane plantation in town. The whole place was just beautiful. The neat part for me, in addition to the free wifi and garbage dumpster they make available to cruisers, was that Jamie Beck is from Charleston, South Carolina, as is a large portion of the management team. They really have a Caribbean gem! The beach bar is scheduled to be open June 1st of this year and is sure to be a very popular gathering spot for cruisers and locals. There will also be a new marina, a very large lagoon with building sites along the edge, and possibly a golf course. Although we didn't visit it, there is also a very nice restaurant at Turtle Bay that is open daily.