There are charcoal grills, you can build a little fire in them --no unenclosed fires allowed.

Never a golf course at Caneel--or at Little Dix; there's not enough water available to irrigate greens most places in the VI. This film is difficult to sort out because the footage goes back and forth between Caneel and the Buccaneer on St Croix. The Buccaneer looked similar to Caneel in that era, a...

Need to point out again, that more than half of this film is St Croix, there's also some st thomas, and the date is late 50's--no rental cars on St John.

That's because more than half of this is St Croix (The Buccaneer Hotel) and some is St Thomas (Carib Beach, at Lindbergh). All you see of St John is two shots of Cruz Bay and a lot of the brand new and barren Caneel. Date is 1959 +/- 1 year.

Henry ran Tradewinds Charters out of the tiny building right on the street there below Phil's. I think it's part of St John Editions now. We pushed the limits pretty often on how far --and with how many on board--we could go, in a 20ft sailboat.

The Out was in a building where Mongoose II is now, in the mid-1970's. The building at various times was the Downtowner, the Sandwich Shop, Mugsies, The Booze Boutique and at least one more incarnation I'm forgetting. The Purple Line was upstairs in the original Mongoose Junction, sort of where the ...

The ferries are in the Creek, along with the Roanoke and the Cap'n Vic.

It's called "off season", hooray!

Jost might be a bit limited for two nights. Have you been to Tortola or Virgin Gorda? Tortola pluses: easy to get to, affordable accommodations, great hiking on Sage Mountain, plenty to explore. Minuses: years of trying hard to turn into St Thomas-- but it does still have many unique and pleasant sp...

Lex, you were probably more in the area right off of Annaberg, which remains pretty OK snorkeling on the outside of the very shallow flats. As you go up into the creek itself conditions deteriorate.

The inner area of Mary's Creek is very shallow and tends to be murky and unpleasantly warm. Not any beach to speak of except a couple of little areas close to Annaberg- parallel to the road.

Don't know if they should be advertising that "beaverage service" so openly

Here's another possibility: morays sometimes stick their heads out of the water (I have actually seen this). They do not climb trees, as far as I know ; ), but maybe the splash was something else?

Given what you described, there seem to be two possibilities: 1) This is an exotic snake that someone released from captivity, let's hope not a Burmese python. 2) What you saw was actually an iguana. I mention this because iguanas very frequently fall from trees into the water when humans walk under...

A reminder..DO NOT FEED DONKEYS!!!! It's been a while since anyone was seriously hurt by one, but it is a totally bad idea to feed any animals (except maybe cats) on St John, and especially not donkeys.