Nevis

Nevis is a marvelous secluded island in the Caribbean. There’s one large mountain in the middle and it looks kinda Hawaiian to me. They have one Four Seasons Hotel and that’s where all the fancy pants people go. The island is about twenty miles around, which is about the size of St. Thomas. Nevis however, is much more unspoiled and has maybe a quarter of the population of St. Thomas.

Large ships never really go there. The island is not set up to accommodate big ships, there’s one very small dock so we had to tender. To top it off the seas were very rough that day so it was difficult to get guests into the tender boat from our ship. Getting to shore was so slow that they didn’t let crew get off that day unless they were working. So how did I get off? I was so incredibly lucky to get to escort a shore excursion so that they let me and only a couple other crew set foot on the island.

The tour I did was a hiking and biking tour up the woods and down and around on a bike. Nevis is part of the French West Indies and it’s right next to St. Kitts, which we unfortunately didn’t stop at, but I suppose if I had been able to go on a beach tour I might have been able to swim to the island, it was that close. And just beyond St. Kitts is St. Barts, which was our next port of call for the special jazz charter cruise….

Katie