The caterers on St. John aren’t just for people looking for chefs, fancy meals or wedding cakes. They’ll go to the grocery store for you too. We use Christy’s of St. John (since she’s On-StJohn.com’s “official caterer”) but most of them will do this. Just email a shopping list and it’ll be in the frig, freezer and cabinets waiting for you. It’s a really nice treat for the first night at least. Everything you see in that frig we emailed the day before. Right down to the Irish butter. (Oh…most also have menus you can order from that include snack platters. Get a couple of those. They’ll last you days.)

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We’re not Realtors and we get no commission, but this is a dramatic price reduction on what’s a nice house on a kick-ass piece of land. An acre of waterfront property right on Chocolate Hole with its own little private beach. Seems to us, the spot itself is worth the asking price (by the STJ standards anyway.) There’s room to build more, the existing house was recently renovated and when Pond Bay Club gets built, a world-class resort is your next door neighbor. Oh, and you’ve got mooring rights for that big yacht you want to park in the water just outside your back door.

Ebb Tide: Chocolate Hole, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, Pool, Waterfront, 0.997 acres, $1,950,000.

Now just keep your stinkin’ “who cares” comments to yourself if you’re not a Kenny fan. For the rest of us, and I might ad that’s a ba-zillion of us, here’s a little Kenny face time. CNN Headline News hottie Robin Meade interviewed The Man just before his Atlanta concert this week. Turns out he’s a Robin fan, just like lots of us early morning gym rats. Watch it here. Or, if you’re not a Kenny-head, you might get more of a kick out of watching CNN Headline News hottie Robin Meade sing and dance on stage with Kenny. Four words: What is she wearing? 

Have we told you lately about getting out on the water? Meet two brothers from Boston who ditched the rat race, moved to St. John, and started a charter business. Matt and Josh Slayton, owners of Lion In Da’ Sun…below!

Meet Claire Hunt, the new owner of St. John Kids. Claire’s a St. Johnian by way of New York, she sounds like she knows what she’s getting into and she’s got experience. She’s a former manager at Soggy Dollar Bar and Sand Castle Hotel, including the Soggy Dollar Boutique. Claire, who’d been looking for a retail opportunity, heard about St. John Kids being for sale while working just below it, at Colombian Emeralds. “Kids stuff runs in the family,” she tells us. “My son is a toy designer and my daughter manages a day care center, both in NYC. I guess it’s in the blood.”  Read our interview with Claire, the buyer, and Ruth Ernst, the seller, here. 

We’re taking you to the East End again today. This is beautiful Dreekets Bay. The guide books say it’s a great snorkeling and dive spot. The turquoise color of the water is amazing. FYI: The overhead shots were taken from a house called The Retreat. Dreekets Bay, below.

A couple of folks have asked for an update on the Texaco project, so here you go. Picture’s worth a thousand words. Work is going on in there. There is a sort of ugly blind spot at the bottom of the intersection, but it’s not so bad. There are also signs all over that say “Danger! Men at Work!” Which of course we find totally funny. That IS a dangerous thought in the construction business on St. John. 

Look closely. See the goat teetering on that rock? This is on the Western edge of Cruz Bay just as you’re heading out. One boat captain says that goat is there more days than not and he’s always alone. And so the name: Billy Goat Bluff. If you go out on a charter, ask your captain to run by here on the way out. He’s a funny goat (but he’s never going to meet Mrs. Right spending all his time out there on a rock.)

Wade’s got a girlfriend, Wade’s got a girlfriend…

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It’s been a long time since mosquitoes have seemed as bad as they have this summer. You can spray yourself, and burn coils and candles all you want, but you might as well turn it into a game. Mosquito swatters are just great fun. Especially when you nail a big mosquito and it doesn’t only go “crack!” when it fries, but you get a big old rewarding spark out of it too. Honestly, after a while, you’ll be up patrolling, just looking for more to zap. Your favorite will be the multiple play…when a group of them all get caught together in one swing. “Crack…CRACK CRACK CRACK!”

A new restaurant called St. John Waterfront Bistro will move into the old Panini Beach space at Wharfside Village. Chef/owner Tim Cliff, who is also co-owner at Mojo Café just around the corner, tells us it will be a French restaurant with Caribbean ingredients incorporated. Tim, who came to St. John 3 years ago to work in the kitchens at Caneel Bay, says he will be in the bistro kitchen every day, but he also has a Chef de Cuisine who will be in charge of things. Tim will also stay involved at Mojo. The space is getting a top to bottom renovation, and, if all goes well, the new restaurant should be open in time for high season. “We hope that every guest leaves our establishment fulfilled,“ says Tim. “The ambiance, the food, the wine, the staff, the open kitchen and obviously the water view.”

Waterfront Bistro will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week, and there’s also a bar and lounge in the plans.

More than 90 percent of vacation booking-related transactions on St. John are now at least initiated online. Many of them completed entirely online without even one phone call. This probably comes as no surprise to you, but not everybody on St. John gets that yet. Palm Tree Charters got it immediately, and shortly after putting their boat in the water, they put up nothing more than contact information online. Bam. It worked. And now Captain John has a more proper Website. Please check it out. 

We’re all happy and rewarded now. Thank you for the Beach Break comments even though we had to extort them out of you. Beach Break will return to it’s normal schedule…but if you screw with us again, we will seriously mess up your Wednesday. Beach Breaks are meant for comments. (Now excuse us. Russ has to go poo.)