An Island Tour

So after a long and boring day of orientation lectures we took a long, but amazing tour of the island with Mr. Rogers as our helpful guide. St. Kitts is really beautiful and has a great history. I'm not going to even try to remember the historical details to share with you because let's face it I didn't come here to become a history buff I came to study veterinary medicine. If you are interested I'm sure there's a website or two (or maybe even a book) you can read about Caribbean Settlement or something of that nature. Anyway, what I can tell you is that St. Kitts was the first island in the West Indies that Christopher Columbus landed on so when he said he found the New World, he found St. Kitts. He named it after himself (St. Christopher) and was later shortened to St. Kitts (although St. Christopher is its other official name). Somewhere down the line both the British and the French decided it was a cool place that they could exploit for their sugar cane. They soon realized they needed people to build an infrastructure so they moseyed on over to Africa and brought down some slaves (from which most of the people who inhabit the Caribbean descend). So anyway the French and British split the land and that didn't work out too well so there were battles over occupancy. Today we visited Fort George on Brimstone Hill which was just beautiful. We also visited some gardens where I took way to many macro shots of flowers. We piled back into the bus as we drove around all the different areas of the island. Mr. Rogers showed us the place where the Caribbean and the Atlantic meet which was also pretty cool! If you didn't already know, St. Kitts is a volcanic island and while there is no documentation that a volcano erupted on a particular part of the island there is evidence on the shore line. This area is a called The Black Rocks (not to be confused with The Black Rock which was a slave ship that crashed on an entirely different fictional island, but it reminded me of it all day, LOL). Speaking of Lost, oh if you didn't know that was a reference to Lost by the way, the island of St. Kitts might as well be the Lost island between the mountain with the radio tower on top and now these black rock(s) I don't know how I'm supposed to draw any other conclusion! Although very busy, this was another great day on the island of St. Kitts!