Nevis 5 Montravers Estate Ruins

Montravers Estate Ruins, Nevis.

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While on Nevis we took a nice walk directly up from Pinney’s beach to the Montravers Estate Ruins. Very interesting. Although the estate changed hands a few times, it produced sugar and rum for 300 years.

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Just a few hundred feet up the hill we found this building:

This Baobob tree was huge:

Then off for about a mile up the trail to the great house and camel stable:

Old gate pillar:

View from the estate. Dea Latis down there somewhere:

Restored camel stable:

View up to the great house:

Old boiling pot:

Mirrlees and Tait made sugar processing machinery and later power generating equipment:

Kitchen to the great house:

Great house:

On the way back down we saw three monkeys just off the side of the road, they’re in there somewhere:

And back to the boat where we were descended upon by a flock of small birds, just for the night:

That’s it for Nevis!

We are in Montserrat right now heading for Antigua in a few days.