Our first St. Croix Festival “Adult” Parade was a blast. We had a wonderful time and will try and have friends schedule their vacations around it in the future.
Here is a link to all the photos:
2009 St. Croix Festival Adult Parade
Sunset & Full Moon over St. Croix
The moon has been close to full all of this week and with relatively minor cloud cover the reflection off the water is simply incredible. I am not a photographer, but fiddling with my digital camera I was able to take a few photos that I thought were pretty cool. All of these were taken at night time, meaning it was pitch dark outside except for the moonlight.
I also took a few sunset shots from Off The Wall Beach Bar at Cane Bay last weekend. Those are below.
The Rise of Island Girl – St. Croix
After checking out the Green Cay beach area with the dogs we decided to stop at the Brew Pub on the way back through town. Shortly after arriving a salvage boat showed up in front of us to rescue one of the 40+ boats that had been sunk during Hurricane Omar. Here are a few of the photos:
If that is going too fast for you you can also check out the photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chad.p.walter/IslandGirl?authkey=0adOEra0-I0#
Hurricane Omar Update #5 Friday at 3:30pm
Just wanted to let everyone know our power just came back on a little bit ago. Much of the island is still without power however so the 6:00pm curfew remains in effect.
The real reason for this one last update is to let you know that I added additional photos to what I put out there yesterday. Emily and I went into downtown Christiansted for lunch today. The “protected” harbor was a bit of a mess to say the least. According to the newspaper there were more than 40 boats that had sunk. The paper also mentioned reports of power lines snapping in half and most trees being uprooted on the southeast side of the island.
http://picasaweb.google.com/chad.p.walter/Omar?authkey=RQGAbo15uNQ#
Omar Update #4 12:30 pm (day after)
The damage from the storm doesn’t seem to be to terribly bad from my vantage point. I drove around a little while ago and there are many trees down all over the place, blocking roads, knocking down fences, etc, but that seems to be the extent of it, at least on my little area of the island.
I still don’t have power, hopefully later today. I saw crews out fixing downed lines.
Here are the photos I took this morning: http://picasaweb.google.com/chad.p.walter/Omar?authkey=RQGAbo15uNQ#
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Omar Update #3 3:30am
The storm has passed and we are all fine. It picked up speed and moved through the area quicker than I initially expected. Omar turned into a category 3 and things were extremely loud and noisy from about 10:30 – 1:00. I was questioning whether the windows were going to hold with so much pressure put upon them. We got a bunch of water through our water facing windows (because they are crap), but other than that no issues inside the house. It is no longer raining so I walked down to the water (the sea is extremely loud at the moment) but it was hard to tell anything. Lots of palms and coconuts on the ground.
I lost phone service around 11:15 or so. Surprisingly that just came back up a little after 3:00.
No power yet but likely tomorrow at some point. Curfew in effect until 11:00 am.
Thanks for all the concerned emails and calls.
Maybe some aftermath photos to come tomorrow.