USVI-On-Line

Bart, thanks for all the great info... Sounds like a place we might be interested in. How is the privacy there? Is there any other construction going on in the area?

2Feathers,

Still good privacy. There is a cliff on one side of our lot, another side of our lot we left undeveloped with trees, one side has a quiet estate road/vacant lot and the other side has a quiet dirt road that goes over a cliff. There is one construction lot on the other side of that dirt road. The walls of his house are up and he is going very slowly. The whole mini-development(ten lots) was put up for sale six years ago but only about four lots were sold before all were taken off the market. Quiet place right now.

Bumping this up to see if anyone has a review for this villa.

I think I got the tree in question..

Taken on the elevated ramp going towards the Annaberg Plantation.

For extra credit (and because my sorry ass has yet to do a trip report, I have included what I believe to be a Tamarind tree as well)

Wakey,
The spiny tree is one of four different spike-trunked trees that are called monkey-no-climb here...all of them have other names as well. This one in your photo is a sandbox tree (and that name is a whole story in itself) AKA monkey-pistol tree (Ditto). The other three monkey-no -climbs are yellow prickle, white prickle, and even sometimes the kapok, AKA silkcotton or ceiba...as you can see plant names in the tropics are not exactly standardized. The tree by the Annaberg mill is what is usually called a flamboyant in the VI, often a royal poinciana elsewhere, one of the world's most spectacular flowering trees... commonly scarlet, but also in orange and golden -yellow varieties The flamboyant is native only to Madagascar, but is grown absolutely everywhere in the world that is warm enough. No records of when they were brought to the VI...the Annaberg tree shows up on photos from the 1920's!

Hugo, thank you!

I couldn't wait to read this thread.

I thought it was a trip report and I couldn't wait to hear what had to be a CRAZY story. I am a little disappointed but I am going to carefree to take a look. And I guess now I know there is a tree called monkey no climb!

Gina

Thanks for inquiring about Monkey No Climb jdw. I am the owner of Monkey No Climb and unfortunately we are a new house and I have yet to see a review of The Monkey anywhere (except in the book at our villa). If you have any questions I could easily answer them. We were just there a couple of weeks ago.

You got to love this forum jdw.
You ask the question and usually you get a response.
One of our past renters has posted a review of our house in the St. John Villa review section. It's our FIRST ONE ONELINE!
Yes, I am excited.

great Bart! I have this place on my short list for our next trip. Well the one after the one I already have planned