Remember Buddy, the Mojo Café iguana we introduced you to a few months ago?

Buddy recently had a big surprise for his friends at Mojo. It turns out Buddy is a “she.”

Buddy laid eggs near her Mojo home, which just hatched. Babies are healthy. Mom is proud.

Below, one of Buddy’s babies. That’s Ace. (A boy, we think.)

A game show fundraiser at Skinny Legs two weeks ago raised more than enough money to send firefighter Wendy Davis to paramedic school.  And a good time was had by all in the process.

Meet Wendy, and let her tell you why Coral Bay needs a paramedic or two, below!

Chris and Rachael Coffman travel all the way from Cedar Falls, Iowa to visit St. John, so it’s no stretch that they would travel all the way to Wisconsin to see Jimmy Buffett.

And here’s their proof that they took some of St. John with them.

“A great time was had by all, and Woody’s was there with us in spirit,” says Rachael, after Buffett’s June 26 concert in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin.

Now & Zen, with one store in Cruz Bay, has opened an outpost at Shipwreck Landing in Coral Bay, taking over space formerly leased by Jolly Dog Trading Company.

It is a return to Coral Bay for Now & Zen owners Ric and Lolita, who used to have a wholesale warehouse at Shipwreck many years ago.

“We love the ambiance of Coral Bay,” says Ric. “I used to work at Shipwreck 15 years ago and, with Tall Ships on the other side, it is like a little community here to us.”

Ric and Lolita, originally from Santa Barbara, sailed to St. John from Spain on a 32 foot boat 23 years ago, and stayed. They only recently sold their live-aboard boat, “Sushi,” and moved into a house they built near Salt Pond.

As for Jolly Dog, owner Jeff Donnelly says it was time to downsize.

“I had my plate full running three shops and can now focus on my locations at Skinny Legs and on my growing design business,” Jeff tells us. “I’m happy Ric and Lolita have filled the space, especially since they were the previous tenants years ago. That’s good karma.”

The Park Police have been cracking down on illegal street parking outside of Trunk Bay.

The confusing thing is, it’s unclear where you can and can’t park along the North Shore Road.

On this day, folks parked on the North side of the road, where there are no signs that say No Parking were getting tickets, while vehicles on the South side of the road near the ruins, where it is clearly marked No Parking, were not getting ticketed.

Anybody know what’s what?

This is Shipwreck Landing bartender Donna, with her island ride. Donna shares it with her sister Nancy, who makes Valley Doll hot sauce (which you can also find at Shipwreck).

“It may not look like it, but it runs better than any car I’ve ever had,” Donna says. “But it does have some quirks, like the stick I have to put in the carburetor to keep it running after every time I start it.”

Donna, who has been on St. John for 25 years, says she’s not sure where the seats came from (looks like an amusement park ride to us) but she says the driver’s side cushion belongs to her couch at home.

She takes the cushion in with her every night.

This is Mike McDermott, who has been on and off the island for the last four or five years.

Mike is now kitchen manager at the Beach Bar, taking over for Red Hague, who headed off to Alaska in May.

“Red ran a great kitchen and this is a dream job for me,” says Mike, whose resume also includes the Banana Deck and the old Compass Rose at Pastory. “I do have plans to make my own mark here, like our new steak fajita special, but we have no intention of changing the Beach Bar menu at all.”

Mike, originally from Connecticut, says he’s working on other specials and plans to start rolling out some of them in time for high season.

Carnival/Festival 2010 is over. For some, it always means more business. For some, it means a week of slacking off. Either way, it’s always a good thing!

The streets of Cruz Bay. Many of the temporary trash containers set up around Cruz Bay for Festival are used BP oil barrels.

Firefighter Wendy Davis is going to paramedic school, and others might be able to in the future as well, after Sunday’s game show fundraiser at Skinny Legs exceeded its goal, raising more than $18,000.

“It far exceeded our own imagination,” says Debbie Hime, one of the event’s hardworking organizers. “And we couldn’t believe how involved the participants were. So many came, played and dressed up. They were all on fire.”

Although Debbie insists they didn’t rehearse anything, the event was incredibly well put together, right down to buzzers, sound effects and game show music.

Some video  coming soon.

It just takes the right person to pull it off.  We ARE those people.

Pirate’s Bight.  (Some ballsy barracuda chasing video coming soon.)