If you are lucky enough to be in St. John this weekend, be sure to check out the 6th annual seafood festival!
The seafood festival kicks off at 2 p.m. and will continue until 10 p.m. It’s taking place at Franklin Powell Park, which is right across the street from the ferry dock in Cruz Bay.
The event will also feature entertainment, including King Judah Sounds, Klimaxx, Love City Pan Dragons, Dynamic Dancers, Pan in Motion, and more!
Here are a few menus for Saturday’s event:
The Animal Care Center has launched its annual auction, and there are so many great prizes up for grabs! The auction continues through the end of the month, and it is one of the ACC’s biggest fundraisers of the year. The following is a list of auction items.
You can see the entire list with additional details here. Click here to bid.
Villa & Hotel Stays
Boat Trips
Other Fun Things
Looking for a new place to grab dinner when you’re visiting St. John? Well if you like spice and Cajun cooking, you’re going to want to check out the new Cajun-style menu over at the Inn at Tamarind Court.
Chef Isaac Buckner has been heading up the team over at Tamarind Inn for the past few months, and the reviews have been amazing! He was crowned King of the Wing over in St. Thomas and even won a chicken wing contest up in Buffalo, New York a few years back. This man knows spice!
Isaac is serving a variety of Cajun dishes including Cajun Ratatouille, French Onion Meatloaf and more. He even has a special sliders menu every Saturday. Check it out:
Looks great, doesn’t it?
Now if Isaac looks familiar to you, it’s probably because you’ve seen him over at The Tap Room. He cheffed over there for several years before coming over to the Tamarind.
The Inn at Tamarind Court serves dinner Monday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. They are also open for breakfast seven days a week.
(All images courtesy of Inn at Tamarind Court.)
Want to learn more about St. John? Take an island tour with me!
Learn more here –> www.explorestj.com/tour
See the island of St. John with a longtime resident. See the nooks and crannies that many visitors miss. Explore the beaches, historical sites, perhaps a tiki bar or two, and much more. Full & half days available. Rated “Excellent” on TripAdvisor.
Today’s post is a quick PSA for those of you who are scheduled to travel to St. John soon and plan to dine at one of many amazing restaurants.
My parents visited us for the Christmas holiday, and we ate out a lot. There were several restaurants that we dined at that added 20 percent gratuity to the bill. A few of the servers pointed out that gratuity was already added (auto-grat as we call it), but not all did. This happened at fine dining restaurants, but also at some of the most casual restaurants on island.
If a restaurant chooses to add gratuity automatically, that is fine. But I think the server should be required to tell the customer.
I am not knocking any of the restaurants who choose to do this. I am simply saying, check your bills.
That’s it for today. Happy New Year, everyone!
My parents are visiting for Christmas, and my mom really enjoys a good sunset. So last night, we decided to check it out from the Cruz Bay overlook. In the hecticness that is the holiday season here on island, I completely forgot that it’s also green flash season!
The green flash is something that can appear just as the sun dips down into the ocean at sunset. For a split second, a flash of green appears just as the top of the sun falls below the horizon line. The sun is currently setting between Great St. James and St. Thomas, so it’s possible to see this from the Cruz Bay overlook, among other spots near Cruz Bay.
Conversely, The Windmill Bar is a great place to see the green flash in the summer when the sun is setting more to the north.
Unfortunately there were clouds near the horizon last night, so we did not get the opportunity to catch the green flash, but we will try to see it again tonight.
Random island fun fact: Our friends at St. John Brewers make an energy drink called Green Flash.
That’s it for today, folks! Have a great day!
Want to learn more about St. John? Take an island tour with me!
Learn more here –> www.explorestj.com/tour
See the island of St. John with a longtime resident. See the nooks and crannies that many visitors miss. Explore the beaches, historical sites, perhaps a tiki bar or two, and much more. Full & half days available. Rated “Excellent” on TripAdvisor.
St. John has a brand new webcam! We now have one over at Gallows Point Resort!
Gallows Point is located in Cruz Bay. The resort, and its new webcam, face west toward St. John. This new webcam has beautiful daytime ocean views and stunning nighttime sunset views. This is the best time of year to see a sunset from Gallows Point, so be sure to check out this new webcam.
FYI: Sunset is at 5:51 p.m. tonight.
You can see this webcam, plus more than 20 others on our webcam page at www.explorestj.com/webcams
