Sightseeing on St. Croix, 3.15.23

Craque Dam, St. Croix

We were able to borrow our neighbor’s truck again, which was such an amazing gift.  We drove to the western side of the island to see some sites.  First, we found the Craque Dam, which is no longer in use.  I watched videos of it and thought it would be sort of interesting to see.  I also thought that we would have a 1.3mi hike through the rainforest to get to it.  Planning this adventure made me think that we would be on an “Indiana Jones” adventure.  The reality was that we drove up a small, winding road, through the rainforest, and parked right alongside of the dam.  We were able to walk along the top edge of the dam, but it wasn’t nearly as interesting as I thought it would be.  Murky water was caught on the back side of the dam and the front backed up against the rain forest.  In retrospect, I guess it was sort of a unique site to see. 

Next we headed to the Mount Pellier Domino Club, which was located in the middle of the rainforest.  It really was a dive of a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.  Their claim to fame is that people can feed the pigs a can of non-alcoholic beer.  The pigs will drink the beer and spit out the can.  Unfortunately, they only accepted cash and we didn’t have enough to buy a meal.  So, we drove along Mahogany Road back to Frederiksted and found a beach bar called “Rhythm’s Beach Bar.”  It had a pretty view overlooking Rainbow Beach and served good beach bar food.  As we were sipping our frozen drinks and looking out over the water, we saw a catamaran come in and anchor.  It turned out that it was “Great Adventures,” the owners of the truck we borrowed to explore the island. 

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