Cheryl Geller, the artist who did the 2009 St. John phone book cover, sends us her photo of a beautiful moon rise over the East End.
In fact, we have apparently sparked a bit of an artist’s challenge. Cheryl sent us her moon rise picture in response to Jolly Dog Jeff’s sunrise pictures. “I’ll see Donnelly’s two sunrises and raise him a moon,” she says.
This moon rise is pretty cool, but apparently Cheryl wants Jeff to know that moon rise wasn’t just a lucky shot. Check out this Web page she has put up.
Scott and Patty Rose have been going to St. John for about 12 years and last year decided to build a house in Coral Bay. And they’ve been blogging about it too.
Alaska is a long ways from St. John, so SNT JON takes some explaining. But Scott says fellow Alaskans just assume CARIB, his favorite beer, is short for caribou.
The orange plastic roundabout is taking shape. We’re guessing this project will seriously test the intended lifespan of those temporary barriers.
This picture is taken from Boulon Center, the turquoise building just past Jake’s (the old Chilly Billy’s) and construction has cost a few parking spaces. That stretch of road used to be two way traffic. Now it’s one way. Follow the old Mustang.
On-StJohn.com reader Nick sends in this blast from the fairly recent past photo. A box of Miss Hatties Chocolate Dipped Coconut Patties to the first person who can identify where in the British Virgin Islands this sign was until recently, (when someone violated request number four.)
Hey, that’s nice! St. John artist Cheryl Geller (aka half owner of the new The Tourist Trap food shack by Salt Pond) designed this year’s phonebook cover.
Phone Book publisher Hank Slodden says the books are on the boat and on the way down, with distribution probably in late December or early January.
Cheryl got the cover art job by nagging. A lot. And her design even took the phone book’s famous “hole” into account. Cheryl is a hoot. Read our interview with her, here!
That’s Captain Chris, right, with a happy customer, left. And if you see Chris with a cooler on his tailgate, stop. The fish doesn’t get any fresher.
Chris Tronquet runs charter boat company World Class Anglers and if it’s a good day, everybody wins. “I give the folks I take out 10 or 15 pounds of fish to take home. That’s after I’ve cleaned them. That’s a lot of fish,” Chris says. “The rest I sell in town.”
The restaurants buy the really big fish, but smaller catch – football-sized tuna, Rainbow runners, yellow tail snapper, small dolphin fish and the like -he sells for about $5 a pound.
So where can you find Captain Chris?
“You never know where you’ll see me. Sometimes in front of Cap’s. Sometimes behind JJ’s. Sometimes at Pine Peace,” says Chris, who used to work for Capt. Grizz and Gone Ketchin’ before starting his own business. “And I always leave the heads on so you can see their eyes. That’s how you know a fish is fresh.”
The kiddy Coconut Telegraph got the word around, and the kids came out in full force for the arrival of Santa and his bag of gifts in Cruz Bay Tuesday.
Here’s a couple of minutes of adorable little kiddies dancing and singing their hearts out, or as we like to call it, “Boy, kids make a lot of noise.”
The Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park is gearing up for another season of volunteer cleanups.
Volunteer coordinator Jeff Chabot says more than 450 people volunteered last season, putting in 1600 volunteer hours doing trail work and cleaning up ruins, like these folks at the Francis Bay Great House.
All you have to do is get up early, and show up. The Friends van picks you up Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m. at Mongoose Junction, 8:15 a.m. at Cinnamon Bay and 8:30 a.m. at Maho Bay campgrounds. You’re done and ready for lunch by 1 p.m.
The volunteer program runs from December to mid-April.
Sunsets get all the attention. St. John sunrises can be more amazing. They do come with the very expensive price of being up early to see them.
These Coral Bay sunrise photos sent to us by Jeff Donnelly.
Jolly Dog Jeff is also working on a new t-shirt series. He calls it Road Signs We’d Like To See. It includes “Paradise, Next Exit,” “No Work Zone Ahead,” and our favorite…..
It is officially the holiday season on St. John, with last night’s 4th annual Children’s Parade, sponsored by Steve Simon, through downtown Cruz Bay. Steel pan drums, Middle Age Majorettes, presents for the kids and more. Let the holiday season begin.
