Caribbean & Mexico St. Croix, USVI 2008

St. Croix, USVI 2008

By Islands Staff

December 14, 2009

Among other things, ISLANDS editor Matthew Miller learned to make fire on St. Croix.

Russell Cutts tosses the burning matter.

Russell Cutts makes fire, part of an earth skills demonstration at Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix, USVI.

Bungalows at the Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix, USVI

Russell Cutts and Nate Olive use friction to make fire, part of an earth skill demonstration at Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix, USVI.

Golf course and St. Croix from the deck of the Buccaneer’s Great House.

The tree house at Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix, USVI. An intern lives up there with the lizards.

Russell Cutts and Nate Olive make fire with sticks at Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix, USVI.

The so-called “Museum” on St. Croix. One man’s junk may be another man’s treasure, but sometimes collecting other men’s junk leaves you with a yard full of junk.

Two frigate birds on the wing above Divi Carina Bay Resort on St. Croix, USVI.

Moko jumbies toy with the authorities at the Agriculture and Food Fair of the United States Virgin Islands.

A pelican fishes above the pier at Divi Carina Bay Resort on St. Croix, USVI.

A preserved sugar mill at the Buccaneer resort. The chunk of iron in front is part of the original works.

Russell Cutts holds the material he’s set fire to using friction, an earth skills demonstration at Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute on St. Croix.