Caribbean Cruise Day 3: St. Kitts

St. Kitts has 40,000 inhabitants and when Queen Mary 2 and the Emerald Princess dock in its harbor they are probably raising the population by 20%. Seeing those two mega cruise ships next to each other docked on a narrow pier. So it's not surprising that St. Kitts built an entire village just for cruise passengers, which is about as authentic as the area around Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyworld. Somehow, shopping diamonds is big in St. Kitts, so most of the shops are jewelers accompanied by the usual souvenir shops.
We booked a tour that combined snorkeling and kayaking with a nice drive over the island. We had a look at the new Marriot resort, which looks as oversized on the island as the QM2. Other than that St. Kitts is one of the unfortunate Caribbean island, where nature was mostly destroyed to make room for sugar plantations that don't exist anymore.
In the end there was not real snorkeling, because of low visibility under water and the kayaking ended on a rough stretch of pebble beach, far from the Caribbean dream beach we hoped to see.
Anyway, back on board we discovered yet another place to eat and drink on deck 13 and the beauty of the sail-away parties: live music while the island fades away under a beautiful sunset. A great photo opportunity.