St. Kitts is prime for exploration, and the Southeast Peninsula, which is home to Christophe Harbour, offers some great opportunities for adventure.

As Christophe Harbour’s Director of Operations and Development, Spencer Nash spends a lot of time walking the property to ensure landscaping is thriving, construction is happening, and development work – above ground and below water – is progressing. As a self-professed outdoorsman, it’s no wonder his family loves a day filled with adventure and exploration.

A typical island weekend for the Nash family, who’ve lived on St. Kitts for two years, generally involves some type of exploration and an unexpected find. They either pick a specific thing that’s interesting and go on an adventure OR they pick a destination and go exploring.

The Nash family spent Sunday exploring Whitehouse Bay at Christophe Harbour. Whitehouse is a beautiful Caribbean bay filled with ballast stones, shells, and a shipwreck. It was a destination choice, so they were in hopes of finding something new and unexpected.

Mission accomplished!  They came upon a new sea creature.

The Brittle Star (also called Serpent Star) is a spiny, hard skinned, long-armed animal that lives on the rocky sea floor, from shallow waters to great depths. While not a fish, the animal is related to the sea star family.  Most Brittle Stars have five long, thin, spiny arms that extend from a flat central disk. Their 9-year-old son researched the Brittle Star, learning a few interesting things like if its arm is cut off, it can grow a new one, and that the animal has five teeth in its mouth. The latter produced squeals from their four-year-old daughter who’d been holding the creature without fear up to that point.

Spencer admits that not all of their family adventures end in discovering a new sea creature, such as the Brittle Star, but day always ends with happy kids and the proverbial smile-inducing question: “Can we do it again tomorrow?”