Jason Video: Hawksbill at Hawksnest
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Jason did a little up-close swimming with a hawksbill turtle recently.
Now you can too!
Archive for September, 2009
Swimming in Cruz Bay, 1979
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Lonnie Willis sent us this picture of kids from 30 years ago, when there was lots of swimming in Cruz Bay.
She says the Julius E. Sprauve School had swimming lessons there during school hours.
Villas for Sale: The Retreat
Sunday, September 13th, 2009St. John’s East End is about as secluded as you can get, and The Retreat is not a cookie-cutter vacation home. A unique design, a spectacular view and direct access to some of the best snorkeling in the Caribbean.
Two bedrooms, plus lofts, pool, and your own beach. $1,695,000.
The Retreat, below!
Here we go again: Cleaning out Cruz Bay
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
DPNR seems bound and determined to make Cruz Bay a swimming beach, even if they are only sporadically bound and determined. (The effort goes back at least two years.)
This time, divers helped put in a series of temporary markers about 100 feet from the shoreline and we’re told all boats within that area have 10 days to move. Live aboards are again at risk of getting booted out.
Boat businesses might be okay in this latest incarnation of clean out the bay. We hear DPNR will consider commercial mooring permits.
Is this a potential swimming beach? Maybe. What do you think?
What are you doing in September, Part 5
Friday, September 11th, 2009House sitting and catching up on laundry, changing around a menu, playing with a new puppy, getting ready to audition for a TV commercial (“It’s true, it’s really true”) and cleaning up before dad visits are among things on the September agenda for these locals.
Ruth Cam, Part 5, below!
Slayton, Bettinger win Pasta Cook-off
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Lion in da Sun Captain Josh Slayton is on a roll. Less than two months after winning this year’s Kingfish Tourney on St. Thomas with a record catch, Josh walks away with first place in Quiet Mon’s Pasta Cook-off contest over the weekend, in the Vegetarian Pasta Sauce category.
Waterfront Bistro’s Seth Bettinger also wowed the judges, winning first place in the Pasta Sauce with Meat category.
This was Quiet Mon’s fourth cook-off contest, which has also included Chili, Mac & Cheese and Meatloaf. The (more or less) monthly contests are sponsored by both Quiet Mon and Woody’s.
Even if you’re not a cook, you can enjoy. There’s a small entry fee for contestants, but the cook-offs are always open to a hungry public.
What are you doing in September, Part 4
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Making hot sauce and fish sticks, redecorating a restaurant, digging dirt and rocks, visiting friends and family in the states and saying the Hurricane Prayer are among plans for these locals in September.
Ruth Cam, Part 4, below!
Dry until noon
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
If your vacation travel includes a pre-boarding beer, don’t fly through Charlotte on a Sunday. North Carolina is dry until noon on Sundays.
No exceptions. Unless you plead your case and say you’re on vacation. In which case, you may get a beer at 11:59:38.
Horrific.
What are you doing in September, Part 3
Monday, September 7th, 2009Visiting family in the states, moving a business, spending more time and the gym and…well, drinking, are among things on the list for a few more locals.
Ruth Cam, Part 3, below!
It’s September, swim with some locals
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
If business is slow and you work on an island with the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean, it’s about time you go see them. Welcome to September, when town is quiet and the beaches are too!
Beach Break: That beach by Shipwreck
Friday, September 4th, 2009If this beach has a name, please tell us. It’s a little sliver of a beach, and the Coral Bay surf is sometimes raucous. It’s also a good Seagrape Hill villa spotting spot.
That beach by Shipwreck, below!
Missing Mooisha is back
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Here is a kidnapping story that has a happy ending.
Rhumblines’ mascot, Mooisha the cutout cow, disappeared a couple of weeks ago after a staff boating trip. But (perhaps thanks to posted notices looking for information) someone ratted out the kidnapper and has managed to negotiate its return.
Why was Mooisha, pictured below at her most recent public appearance at Bar Wars, kidnapped?
“Because there’s nothing to do right now and people are bored,” says Rhumblines’ Brandi. “It was all in good fun. It’s just summertime.”
