Sights in Saba

1. Harry L Johnson Museum

   • Saba
   • Sights › Museum

   The museum is in a gardenlike setting surrounded by wildflowers, including black-eyed Susans, the official island flower. The collection is housed in a typical Saban home, whitewashed with green-shuttered windows, and the interior recreates the living quarters of a 19th-century Dutch sea captain.

   Exhibits include a four-poster bed with period decor, a collection of pottery fragments and lots of memorabilia. A small resource center stocks articles on Saba and a collection of artifacts from the Amerindian archeological sites around the island. maritime documents, sextants and a compass.

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2. Mt Scenery

   • Saba
   • Sights › Mountain

   A strenuous climb up a virtual nonstop run of stairs - 1064 in all - leads to Saba's highest point. As ample reward for the workout you get a close-up view of an elfin forest and a panorama of Saba and neighbouring islands when the clouds decide to part. Interpretive signs along the way describe the prolific flora and fauna.

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3. Ladder Bay

   • Saba
   • Sights › Bay

   Before Fort Bay was enlarged as a port, everything - from supplies to the queen - was hauled up to The Bottom via the Ladder, a series of more than 800 steps hewn into the rock. These days there's not much at Ladder Bay other than an abandoned customs house and the coastal views, but you can still walk the route.

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