Frederiksted, St. Croix

Thursday, November 7, 2013 Frederiksted, St. Croix
Today we had to pass through the US border immigration patrol on board the ship before going onto shore...a quick process for us Americans and the Canadians....but there were long lines in the area for visitors from other countries.

 

Clock Tower

We walked the long pier to see fantastic aqua blue waters and enjoyed the music of a Carribean Band. The music was a great welcome to the island. The hills here were more rolling low peaks that were covered mostly by trees. The view was a lot greener than St. Kitts from the boat.

We went to the beach to try out the water. Warm and refreshing. The sun was extremely hot by 10:00am and Larry found a great spot at the beach in the shade.

We took a walk around the old fort on the beach with several canons rusting away in the waves and passed through the small park beside the fort.

 


We followed a winding sidewalk through an ocean front park and stopped by a few shops along the waterfront. It was not as commercialized as St, Maarten and St. Kitts...mostly locally owned tents and run down store fronts.

We followed a winding sidewalk through other ocean front park and stopped by a few shops along the waterfront. It was not as commercialized as St, Maarten and St. Kitts...mostly locally owned tents and run down store fronts

 

A nice park followed the coastline with memorials for each branch of the  military from St. Croix.

Although St. Croix is the largest of the three Virgin Islands, we were surprised to learn that only 2-4 ships come into its harbor each month. The shopkeepers were very happy to see us. After reading the local paper, we found that most ships went to the neighboring island of St. Thomas. Having been to St. Thomas 23 years ago, we remembered the many crusie ships piling into the port of Havensmith back then....it was a very busy place then so I'm sure it has blossomed and grown more since then.

 

Having had enough of the heat from the beach and our walk through the town, we headed back to the ship in time to have lunch.

The afternoon brought a little storm and  the sun began to peek out behind the clouds as the boat pulled out of the harbor at 4:30pm.