Peacock

Saw this very rare animal. Had to take a picture.. 😌So much history behind this exotic animal... Very beautiful but yet dangerous..😂😋😘😍😍

The View from Solitude

Tourism

Watch and see the beauty that lies beneath me. As you can see the cruise ship that docked at Fredericksted Dock or as we call it "Big Dock". When I see cruise ships I think to myself and imagine how St. Croix look to them. On my way home, I stopped and talked to a tourist from Grenada. She told me that St. Croix looks more beautiful than how she saw it in pictures on the Internet. She also said her favorite part of St. Croix are the beaches. There is no reason to be down at our island. Because it has people that will take it from us any day. As you can see, the island is improving with water parks, hotels, restaurants, and malls. More and more we think that our island is just a island but we are more than that to tourist.

Pre-Columbus Residents on St. Croix

This photo resembles how The Pre-Columbus Residents on St. Croix used to look back in the year of their lifetime.
There is an exhibit located in The Frederiksted Fort.

This is the Poisonous Fruit called Manchineel (Man-CHin-eel). The Indians, including the Calinas (Carib Indians) and Tainos used this apple to defend themselves against Christopher Columbus and his men. 

Did you know St. Croix was the first place The "Old World" meet The "New World"?

Haiku

Sunshine in morning

Clouds dissapppear in the night

What beautiful island

Enslaved people work 

Working in the plantations

sunny afternoon

Fort holding prison

With dens and dungeons in sight

No way to escape

Columbus's sailing

D. Hamilton Jackson rights

Queen Mary Burn

Haiku

I am so clueless
Because of the lost history
Sigh if only I could learn

Beautiful Islands

Beauty

Drifting in the waters

Rich in history and health

Beautiful St. Croix

Drifting in the past

Waiting to be remembered

Lived on this Island

Enjoying its beauty

Not knowing its pain

Artistic view 2

This drawing is of the Annatto fruit from the Achiote tree. The red seeds that can be found within a spikey green shell were used as paint or dye by the enslaves and the native Indians that walked the lands before us.

Artistic View

The drawing is of the Old Richmond Prison that was built in 1834. the building was left  unmaintained and forgotten as result the rich history and beauty of the build is being lost. the drawing is of an entrance to the jail cells from the back of the prison as if there was a court yard or open space that used to be there. To me the drawing shows a building that has been threw years and years of natural elements, human neglect and abandonment. but yet it still stand strong and tall in all its glory to show us a blast from the past.

Historical Windmill

This Historical Windmill was used by the Enslaves to make Sugar Canes and other crops that was grown in the area. They used the windmill to power a machine that was almost like an old wringer. Instead of only two poleslike rolling pins, it had three. It squeezed the juice out of the sugar cane. 

Trumbull Trail to Tide Pools

Many of the people that live on St. Croix go to the tide pools and use the Trumbull Trail. Others don't know the trail name is Trumbull Trail . Trumbull Trail was used by the Maroons (runaway slaves) to escape being captured or running from being hunted. This trail is more than 2.7 miles long and has very rough terrain in the middle. We also saw a tree that "we" never heard of which is called "Monkey Don't Climb That Tree", which  really means to have caution. It has spikes coming out of the bark to project itself from predators. We walked this trail with shoes and supplies with us but imagine the enslaved back then when they have no water either food and no shoes. To add on to that, they are running for their life. Trumbull Trail is mainly on a hill. It leads to Tide Pools. It is a series of tides filling up over a shore line with walls. It gets very deep on an high tide but today it was shallow. Rocks and walls all around us. For us today the whole trail to and from plus a trip to the mill just up the hill was 6.9 miles long. A lot of hiking but worth it when we went in the tide pools.

Monkey Don't Climb That Tree