St Kitts-Nevis Feb 1 to 6
Air Canada direct YYZ to St Kitts
Really bumpy flight down. No service / seat belts sign on for about half the 5 hour flight.

We were Zone 5 boarding until we volunteered to gate check our luggage at which point we were placed in between Zone 2 & 3.
Immigration and Emmigration were multi-stops…it was like someone is trying to employ all of their relatives with each cousin looking at different pages of our passports. Took about 40 minutes to get to taxi stand and then 15 minutes to Sugar Bay Resort.

Oceanview room on second floor so we slept with patio door open listening to the Atlantic waves crash at our footsteps.
First full day we did an all day cat / rum/ snorkeling trip with Blue Water Safaris…excellent day; great food / punch and snorkeling though no turtles. Met some really nice TD Bank folks with whom we dined later in the stay at the Spice Mill.
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Couple of days on the beach in Frigate Bay (avoid Shiggadity Shack burgers); one day we took the 40 minute ferry ride to Nevis where we then made our way to Oualie (“wally”) Beach Resort. Nice quiet beach, decent food and drinks. Took a 10 minute water taxi back to St Kitts, dropped at the Reggae beach bar.

Feb 6 Easy departure on LIAT for SXM …again after having all of the cousins in Emmigration have multiple looks at our passports.

SXM Orient Bay Feb 6 to 12
LIAT from St Kitts to SXM…nice views on the way over for 30 minutes.

Rental from Kennys: easy, admonished to not leave anything in car even as we stopped for groceries.

Found our way to the Village and our AirBnB. It had a shared pool but we did not use that as we were 3 minutes walk to the Village, beach and eateries. You can see the church
like theatre in the 2nd pic. It is part of the village square.

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We found all that we needed in the Village and only left to go to an ABM and one island tour.

There is however still lots of physical damage and unrepaired buildings.
This row of still damaged townhomes is right beside Le Telegraphe (great food).
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