Ay Ay Eco Hike & Tours

Hike along the scenic ridge from the month of november to january, the entire landscape will be dotted w/ small yellow bell-shaped flowers of yellow cedar (tecoma stans), the virgin islands national flower. Each of the Eco Hikes given by Ras Lumumba will include a rambling informal lecture based on the species actually encountered, their properties (both actual and legendary) and the taxonomic latin names as well as the more colorful appelations by which they are known in the caribbean.

Email: eco@viaccess.net

Bush Lady Tours - Veronica M. Gordon

Veronica is a seventh generation native traditional Bush Doctor (Herbalist).   Medical Bush Tours are conducted as listed or at the Botanical garden or even in your own yard! Veronica also offers hand-on workshops, class lectures and field trips. Each tour includes physical activity, an information lecture based on plants actually encountered.   Latin names, chemical constituents, toxicity, common names and uses, site history on location will also be presented on the tour.

Big Beard's Adventure Tours

Sail on the 42ft. catamaran Renegade, the only sailboat on St. Croix with an underwater viewing window. After experiencing the beauty of the beach and wonder of the underwater trail at the reef, we sail over to Big Beard's Beach on St. Croix North Shore for the famous all you can eat and drink (rum punch or fruit punch) beach barbeque.

Email: info@bigbeards.com
Website: www.bigbeards.com

Mile Mark Water Sports

Mile Mark Watersports is a professional watersports operation located on St. Croix, the largest of the US Virgin Islands. We operate several exceptional adventures including snorkling, scuba diving, sunset cruises, beach barbeques and sportfishing. With several locatioons, we can accommodate all your watersports and diving needs.

Email:
Website: www.milemarkwatersports.com

Paul & Jill's (Horse-back tours)

The finest horses are owned and managed by husband and wife team Paul Wojciechowski and Jill hurd. Jill , of Danish descent, born and raised on St. Croix, has been riding the hills for years.She can tell you about the history of the island; the flora, fauna, and a host of facts about St. Croix to highlight your vacation. Accomodating the novice as well as the experienced horse rider on suitable horses matched to their height, weight and experience.

St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures (SCUBA)

Learn to Dive, Dive the Ultmate Wall, Become a better diver are some of SCUBA's specialties.

Email: info@stcroixscuba.com

Website: www.stcroixscuba.com

Virgin Kayak & Canoe Outfitters

Family owned & operated.Virgin kayak & tours gives you an upfront look at what a water tour on an island really should be like. Let us bring you back in time to the world of the tains and carib people or paddle westward from columbus landing or cane bay beach over the world famous “wall”, where majestic mountains meet the crystalline blue sea

Email: virginkayak@stcroixlink.com

Website: http://www.stcroixlink.com/virginkayak/

Agriculture

Ben Jones Farm / Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute (VISFI)

The Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute is over one hundred acres of rolling green hills and valleys nestled in the highlands of the northwest corner of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. VISFI promotes the development of agroecology: an innovative field of agriculture that enjoins productivity with resource conservation, using ecological and indiginous management models to create sustainable life systems. We believe local, organic agriculture and a practical educational experience are the first steps toward building vital communities and achieving long term sustainability within a healthy environment.

Email: info@visfi.org
Website: www.visfi.org

Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts

CMCArts, Inc.was founded in 1994 by Candia Atwater, with the annual publication of the "Island Art & Soul" calendar of Caribbean art. In 2003, CMCArts moved into and began restoration of a wonderful, historic building on the waterfront in Frederiksted. Over the last four years, CMCArts has grown into an epicenter of activity, where residents and visitors of all ages have benefited from CMCArts' innovative arts and cultural programming. Now is an exciting and important time to be involved. The beautiful Caribbean Sea and historic Danish property offer a perfect setting for CMCArts' spacious exhibition galleries, visiting artist in residence apartments, working art studios and classrooms, a fully equipped pottery studio, gift shop, offices and protected courtyard for performances and events.

Website: www.cmcarts.org

LeeCeeClure Designs - Cindy Male

Cindy Male's fine art is a result of her studies of left brain/right brain theory, chaos theory, and studies of brain states and expanded consciousness. Her portfolio shows diverse "site specific" art including a twenty-four-piece installation at the Savannah Yacht Club and the Vanilla Spa in Savannah, Georgia. Site specific art enhances design elements and architectural features without dividing, cluttering, or inhibiting the flow of energy within the space.

Email: art@cindymale.com
Website: www.cindymale.com

Art and Things - Sandra Michael

Moko jumbies are a cultural group that originated in Africa.  The slaves brought their culture with them from Africa.  The Moko Jumbies are a form of Masquerading.  The only difference is their stilts.  They all wear mask to hide their identity.  The mask is essentially a dramatic device enabling the performer to stand apart from his or her everyday role in the community.  They would carry a kazoo in their mouth to disguise their voices.  They wore clothing that would cover their entire bodies so you could not tell if they were male or female.  My grandmother Ms. Elizabeth Clarke was a masquerader on foot and my grandfather Mr. William Robinson was a Moko Jumbie.  In their younger days, their groups wore long draws with lots of lace.  They also wore long dresses down to their ankles with petticoats.  At some point while performing they showed off their underwear while performing by lifting their dresses over their heads.  Today the Moko Jumbies are used for entertainment.  In Africa they were used to carry people through crisis with the appropriate ceremonies containing the emotions of the moment in music, song and dance.  In Africa masqueraders may be used for religious rituals, therapy, hierarchal ceremonies, funeral rites, after burial ceremonies, anniversaries, naming ceremonies, adolescent initiations, cure of diseases, consultations as oracles, impersonations of ancestors, judging disputes and executing criminals.  The complexity of masquerading and its related public festivities suggest that it is the Sub-Saharan’s principal art form.  

Asta Masqueraders

Masquerade dancers are a feature of religious societies in many areas. Four main types of masquerader are identified by the roles they play: those who embody deities or nature spirits and to whom sacrifice is made to assure the fertility of land and people, those who embody the ancestral spirits, those who placate the spirits through their dance, and those who perform principally as entertainers.

Botanical Garden

St. George Village Botanical Garden is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of both the historical 19th century Danish sugar cane plantation and living collections including over 1500 native and exotic species and varieties on its ground.

Email: garden2@viaccess.net
Website: www.sgvbg.org

Lawetz Museum

Nested in a tranquil, wooded valley, the Lawetz Museum at Little La Grange awaits you with gracious Crucian hospitality, rambling tropical gardens, fascinating historic ruins and colorful stories about the Danes, Africans, Americans, Irishmen, Englishmen and Dutchmen who have lived and worked on this former sugar and cattle plantation since the 1750s.

Email: landmark@viaccess.net
Website: www.stcroixlandmarks.com

Whim Plantation

History comes alive as you walk, with your guide, around the 18th and 19th century buildings and ruins of this former sugar estate. Your tour will show how the cane is converted to sugar and includes the product of this, the Greathouse, and the other buildings the people of the estate used.

Email: landmark@viaccess.net
Website: www.stcroixlandmarks.com