We spent a week anchored in St. Thomas Harbor (Charlotte Amalie) to provision for visits by friends and family. The harbor is large and well protected. It is busy with cruise ships, charter boats, mega yachts and cruisers. We anchored near the Coast Guard dock, close to the “down town Charlotte Amalie” area. There are plenty of cleats/chains for your dinghy along the water front inside the Coast Guard dock and there is also a very nice dinghy dock at Yacht Haven Grande Marina. The Pueblo, K-Mart (must be the last K-Mart around) and laundromat are a short walk from the Yacht Haven dinghy dock and there is a Moe’s grocery near the downtown dinghy dock. We took advantage of being “in town” and used internet at Bad Ass Coffee and Cafe Amici in Riise Alley. It was so different seeing all the lights on the hills at night compared with St. John, largely undeveloped since it is mostly National Park. Bryan asked me if it reminded me of my childhood but it really didn’t. First of all, we didn’t spend much time in St. Thomas and secondly, it was not nearly so developed when I was here as a child. My family lived in Fajardo, Puerto Rico from 1968 through 1974 and we spent a lot of time cruising in Vieques, Culebra, St. John and the British Virgin Islands. The population of St. Thomas was about 29,000 in 1970 and is currently at 51,630. We dinghied to Crown Bay Marina for diesel, gas and boat parts at the chandlery and had breakfast (delicious) at Bumpa’s before our last provisioning trip to the Pueblo.
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