St. Thomas, USVI

Sailing into St. Thomas

We arrived nice and early in St. Thomas and after breakfast and snapping some pictures of the port, we were ready to head into town.  St. Thomas is known as the best shopping port in the Caribbean, and we certainly put it to the test. 

After getting off the ship, we discovered that the port is surrounded with iguanas!!!  There was a lengthy photo taking incident.  Eventually, we took a jeep taxi into town and followed our trusty shopping map.  I tried on a lovely titanium pendant and chain, but despite their best efforts, the store owners couldn't figure out how to get me just the chain (really all I need, with my collection of pendants).  I collected up a few free things here and there.  We ordered chocolates for delivery to the stateroom.  And some flavoured rum for making summer drinks when we get home. We picked up more bamboo t-shirts for the ports ahead, and made a serious effort to get a proper iguana souvenir (you'd think it would be an obvious choice for the producers here!).  We were back on the ship by late lunch time. 

I felt like I should tip him for this pose, but I didn't know how!

 

 

In addition to wild life, funny stores!

Aw man!  If only the ship was circling back!

 

 

 

Nice archway.

There was an interesting pond full of fishies!

I loved the list of local flavours on here. Mmm.  Sour sap.  Tamarind. 

Our favourite Caribbean store!  Bamboo t-shirts for the win!

I love the flags all over the Square in St. Thomas

Shopping district!

Oh yes, they had Hello Kitty by Kimora Lee Simmons.  

The charm bracelets will run you about 2K, or as I like to call it - half a cruise. 

Purely decorative, we think. 

Back on the ship, we did a bit more reading about Dominica and headed down to the Shore Excursions desk to make some plans.  We did some hanging out on the balcony, and I did my favourite thing, watching all the machinery and action of sail-away.  They were definitely looking for some missing folks in those final minutes! 

I think we had a relatively quiet evening, dinner, wandering around the ship and seeing the action, and tucking in to get rested for our next port!