St. Croix:  Stupid Animal Tricks

May, 2006

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We loved St. Croix!  It's a great island - big enough to have a real town (Christiansted), rural areas with cows, a "moist" forest (not quite enough rain for an official rain forest), and charming people.  They even have a university - University of the Virgin Islands!  This was the one place of all the places we visited on our trip that we thought we could realistically live very happily.

Christiansted is a lovely town with much of its original Danish architecture preserved.  it is also a bit of an artist's colony with many lovely galleries and working artists.  They have a fun street party, called "Jump Up" a few times a year and we were lucky enough to make it to one.  St. Croix is also home to the Cruzan Rum Distillery - one of our favorites!

For some reason I mostly took pictures of stupid animal tricks in St. Croix.  We attended the hermit crab races, saw a beer-guzzling pig, and awoke one morning to see a horse and rider swimming through the anchorage.  At Buck Island just off St. Croix we saw a pod of dolphins playing with a few cruising boats and also enjoyed some of the best snorkeling of the whole trip.  Jackie was lucky enough to see a spotted eagle ray - beautiful!

  Above:  Beer-guzzling pig; Left:  do you see a brown head in front of the red sailboat?  That's a horse with a rider swimming through the anchorage - I swear, it was early morning and I had NOT had any rum yet!!