Last weekend in St. T

Heidi's Honeymoon Grille









Honeymoon Beach Bay






This sign made us laugh

















Inside the "fort'





The "fort" that was never completed.








Iggy's beach bar

Roots of Creation doing a Police cover

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

I don’t have too much new and exciting to report here. We had a very low-key and pleasant weekend. We had a “date night” on Friday and went out to a restaurant called Grande Cru that offers almost a tapa style menu. Yum!

Saturday morning we did a few things around the house and then went to try to find the elusive “Stumpy’s Bay”. This is supposed to be a gorgeous, less populated beach visited mostly only by locals. This was our second attempt to find it and believe that we were in the general vicinity (down a long, unpaved road that dead ended at a house with several parked cars and caged dogs). While this description sounded like what we were told (and yes, we still went- they left out the caged angry dogs) and we knew we might be in the right place, it seemed any direction we took from there might take us into unknown and somewhat shady territory. So, we packed up and went to another beach. We will not try to look for Stumpy’s again, unless with a local who knows where he/she’s going.

Saturday night we went down on the beach to Iggy’s. A pleasant little beach bar that is a fun place to hang out on most given nights. For this weekend and all of February, they are having different bands come and play on Saturday nights, so we went to check out Roots of Creation play. To hear them play: http://www.myspace.com/rootsofcreation.
We enjoyed the music quite a bit.

On Sunday, we decided to go and explore the lesser known USVI (just added in 2005), Water Island.
Fast Facts
Population: 161 (2000 Census)
Size: 491.5 acres
2½ miles long and ½ to 1 mile wide
Highest Point: 300 feet
More info: http://www.seestjohn.com/water_island.html
We walked most of the island (not too big, as you see from the facts) and enjoyed some of the island history. Such as, in 1944 the United States acquired Water Island for $10,000. They immediately began construction of a defense installation called Fort Segarra which was intended to protect military installations on neighboring islands. The fort included plans for barracks, gun emplacements, watchtowers and underground bunkers; World War II ended before its completion (that’s island time for you). Transportation, water, sewage and power systems were established during military presence. The Army's Chemical Warfare Division used sections of Water Island for several years as testing grounds for poisonous gases (eek!).

After a while, when we were hot and hungry, we stumbled upon Honeymoon Beach. My friend, Taffy, had told me I had to go there, but I never quite knew where she was talking about. I wish we could stumble upon Stumpy’s someday in the same way.

The beach was beautiful and I see why Taffy recommended it. We caught a glimpse (we think) of Eric Clapton’s boat, the Blue Guitar, anchored in the harbour. But no Eric. We also had some fantastic burgers from Heidi’s Honeymoon Grille.

Alas, it was time to go home and check out the Superbowl. We hope to bring some people back to that cozy little island. Since there were no Patriots involved in the big game, we were merely watching because you are just supposed to. Sadly, my favorite part, the commercials, was mostly in Spanish. I guess I should take that as a hint to brush up on my Spanish.

Well, that is it for now. We welcome our first visitors this Thursday, so you might not hear from me again until the end of next week.

I hope all are well and warm!