Located approximately � of a mile west of Frigate Bay Beach. Turtles, lobsters and eels call this home, which make this site particularly popular with both the newly certified and expert diver. A very narrow reef appears custom-made for those who enjoy multi-level diving.?

Friars Bay reef is a favorite for newly certified and beginners. Located roughly a mile from the shoreline, it will always provide a nice easy reef dive with plenty to see. Juvenile angelfish abound, as do big lobsters and spotted morays. Stingrays have found home in the sand along the edges of the reef and seem accustomed to divers.

Samuel Crooke, a planter-politician who served as a member of the Island’s Council, built this eighteenth century Great House. Samuel was the great-grandson of a Major Henry Crooke who was a resident of the island as early as 1648. Crooke left the plantation to his son Samuel Crooke ‘the Little’, who also served on the Council before the end of the eighteenth century. The Crooke connection is still preserved in the cane field nearest to the Great House being called ‘Crooke’s Garden’.

The British called it their Mother Colony. The French disagreed and claimed it for themselves. They waged war over it, and then decided to share. The French took the middle part, the sections now known as Basseterre and Capisterre, and the English took the two ends, that is, the Palmetto Point-Sandy Point area on one side and the Cayon-Nicola Town area on the other side; and they agreed to share the south-eastern peninsula. But the truce did not last. They went to war again and fought until both sides were exhausted. Finally they decided to let the British keep the whole of it.

St Kitts' beautiful Sandy Point was the setting for a dramatic story which changed
the life of a foul mouthed slave trader named John Newton. Newton went on to pen
one of the most famous and well-loved songs of all time - "Amazing Grace".

At the Amazing Grace Experience's Visitor Center on St. Kitts, you will discover
the story of John Newton and the history behind the song "Amazing Grace".
You will also learn more about the tropical island paradise - St Kitts. You will
be inspired to continue Newton's fight by discovering more about slavery

When the two earliest English forts at Old Road and Sandy Point Town (Hamilton Fort) fell into poor condition, it was decided, “to build a big, strong fort” on Cleverly’s Hill, “a suitable site, as ships were often becalmed beneath it.” And so Charles Fort came to be, named after King Charles II who sent £500 to assist in its construction. The fort served its military duty from 1670 until it was abandoned in 1854. Some forty years later, in 1890, it was used as a Hansen Home (leper asylum), which was finally closed in 1996.

After reaching its peak in the late 1700s the production of sugar declined throughout the nineteenth century, nearly ceasing altogether on several occasions in the last hundred years. The growing of sugar beet in Europe, the emancipation of the slaves, and the increase in the number of countries growing sugarcane worldwide, all contributed to depress the industry on St. Kitts and to threaten the island’s entire economy. The Industry was saved from extinction in 1912 by the opening of the central sugar factory, capable of processing the whole of the island’s’ crop.

This former French property was less than 100 acres when Peter Brotherson acquired it early in the eighteenth century. In 1726 the size increased when Brotherson petitioned for additional lands adjoining his property. Sugar was extracted by means of an animal mill for most of the eighteenth century. By 1828 the plantation extended to 286 acres, had a windmill, and was owned by George Galway Mills. The size of the plantation increased to over 300 acres by the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when steam technology was introduced. By then Stuart Davis owned the property.

    The Berkeley Memorial sits in The Circus, the heart of Basseterre - the capital of St. Kitts.
    The Memorial features four clocks, each facing the four different streets of downtown Basseterre, as well as a drinking fountain.
    The clock was erected in the year 1883.
    The Berkeley Memorial was built in honour of Thomas Berkeley-Hardtman, a past legislator and estate owner.

Black Rocks sits just a few minutes away from Saddlers Village.  This rural site is a salient reminder of St. Kitts' volcanic history. One might stop to wonder why these rocks appear so charred, almost resembling mutant chunks of coal.   These bold rock formations are as a result of the pyroclastic eruptions of Mount Liamigua formerly known as Mount Misery, St.