St. Kitts
I can not agree more with Mirela about how great St. Kitts is. On a Real Estate Note: The partners of Kiawah Island (located off Charleston, SC) are in the works of creating a luxury resort called Christophe Harbour and is being designed to accept the "super mega yachts. They broke ground late 2008 and the completion date is 2011. Check out the web-site to learn more. I find it to be very impressive and wonder is they need any Realtors to Lead the Sales Team.
I've visited plenty of Caribbean Saints: St. Juan, St. John, St. Thomas, but I've never been to St. Kitts before. Don't call me a procrastinator; it just so happened that I finally made it to this lovely island on the very last day of the year: Wednesday, December 31st, 2008, to be exact.
Curvaceous and verdant, this volcanic island has both gorgeous mountains and beautiful beaches with lovely lagoons peppered for good measure.
We embarked the ultra modern catamaran barefoot and set sail for a beautiful lagoon about an hour away. I managed to sneak off the boat without the mandatory and cumbersome yellow life jacket. When I visit pristine places like this gorgeous lagoon, it takes all the will power I have to keep a bathing suit on... I kept my distance from my fellow travelers and snorkeled to my heart's content. The sun was shining and Nemo, his friends and I had a great time making our way through the crystal clear waters.
Having been left behind a boat before, I made sure I obeyed the signal to return from my snorkeling nirvana just in time to set sail for a lovely, private beach, where a delicious meal awaited us. Chicken never tasted so good before... My hunger duly assuaged, I lounged on the beach and worked on my tan; not a bad way to end the year...
There were native girls on the beach giving people massages using the juice of the aloe Vera plants they carried in their bags. I politely refused. I was having too good of a time savoring the sun's rays all by my little self.
We set sail again, this time back to the big boat, The Solstice. On the way there, I had a long conversation with a girl from New York who had also broken up with her boyfriend in 2008 and who was there with her family, celebrating the end of her mother's chemotherapy. What a lovely ending to a most stressful year in that family's history. The cancer lost and they were celebrating the event together in St. Kitts.
I was ending a less stressful year. As the Solstice departed St. Kitts, the most amazing sunset laid before me. As I stood there mesmerized by the Sun's last glorious rays, I thought to myself: "What a befitting last sunset for such a glorious year! Thank you Lord for this charmed Life!"
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