CHRISTMAS COVE

1430 hours, April 11th, 2015, Christmas Cove, Great St. James Island, USVI: We dropped anchor. When we first saw Christmas Cove on our honeymoon in 1972, and every time we have passed it since we wanted to anchor here. It's a beautiful cove providing protection from the prevailing NE through SE winds, with a rock outcropping in the center called Fish Cay. Great St. James Island is separated from St. Thomas by Current Cut. As ferries use Current Cut to go between Charlotte Amalie and St. John Island there is some ferry wake, the only down side to the anchorage. With our rocker stopper gear this impact was minimized. 

One of our reasons for stopping here was to provision at the grocery store in Red Hook we had used twice before. Red Hook, which is open to prevailing conditions, is not a good anchorage. We had also had several packages sent to Sapphire Beach Marina which we had stayed at twice earlier in this trip. From Christmas Cove we could also pick up these packages.  

Directly across from Christmas Cove is Cowpet Bay with the St Thomas Yacht Club and the Wyndham Elysian Beach Resort with its two beach front restaurants. We decided to try one of the two for dinner. We came ashore with our dinghy and suspended it about 20 ft, of the beach with our bungee cord anchor line. We had a great dinner at the more formal of their two restaurants overlooking the beach. 

                                           Christmas Cove

                                           Our Dinner View

                                           Artful Presentation

                                                  St. Thomas At Sunset