Tomorrow we have rented a car for a couple of day and will use it to tour St. Croix with Portia and Steve. However, today we decided to explore the town of Christiansted a bit more. While I drove Portia and Steve over to the town in our dinghy, Mary Margaret stayed on board Leu Cat to cook up a batch of her delicious spaghetti sauce for dinner tonight.

Once on shore we first walked across the grounds to Fort Christiansted. On the walk we passed three people with shovels, shoveling dirt. We stopped and asked them what they were doing. They were part of a National Park Service archeological team that is surveying the grounds. Last year, using ground penetrating radar, they discovered a buried well just outside of where the eastern most wall of the old warehouse was. They were getting things reading to continue their investigation.

When we reached the fort, Portia and Steve went inside while I stayed with the park ranger, making sure that our permit to anchor overnight at Buck island on Tuesday was in place. I received that assurance so we are now all set to visit that underwater National Monument before returning to St. Thomas on Wednesday.

After exploring the fort, we next walked over to the old scale house where they used to weight the various goods that came into St. Croix and that were sent overseas. Then we just strolled around some of the streets that make up the historic town and admired the old buildings with their Danish architecture. I will post some photos so you can enjoy what we explored.

We ended up back on the boardwalk that fronts the lagoon and slipped into Rum Runner for lunch. It had a very complete menu and the food we had was great. The Cruzan Breeze, an iced local rum drink made up of Cruzan coconut rum, Cruzan pineapple rum and pineapple juice went down so nice.

As we walked along the boardwalk, heading back to our dinghy, we spied a school of very large tarpons. The largest was about 5 feet long. We are told that they are a great sports fish but taste lousy and are full of bones. Thus, they are a catch and release game fish. These looked like they have been adopted by the tourists as when you stand at the edge of the boardwalk, they flock to you, waiting to be fed.

We returned to Leu Cat and as evening approached we sat down to any delicious spaghetti dinner. Mary Margaret’s magic still is strong! It actually continued into the night as she won our nightly game of Mexican Train dominoes. Just another typical day in paradise.