Nevis Peak

... word "nieve" (snow) because the frequent clouds shrouding the mountain on the island resembled a snow-capped peak. Nevis is even smaller than St. Kitts with 10,000 inhabitants. Many of its old sugar plantations have been converted into romantic inns. We ...

... the vessel for departure, Mike and I went up to Deck 10 to swim in the pool and watch as we sailed away from St. Kitts and continued southeast toward our next stop, Dominica. I then jogged 45 minutes on the treadmill in the ship’s gymnasium, trying ...

... ashore in Nevis to look for Alexander Hamilton's birthsite. Nevis is the other half of the two island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.  Located in the Leeward Islands, it is the smallest sovereign nation in the Americas.  It is conical in ...