The Frolicers: Carnival and Alan and Annabelle’s visit begins

A neat beach setup with inflatble
furniture

Carnival in St Thomas lasts a month. There are many activities throughout the month and they occur all around Charlotte Amelia. So we have been busy seeing the events. We missed may of the events as they occur at night and the Safaris do not run that late and taxis are hard to find. There are a number of parades toward the end of the month which worked out very well as my brother Alan and his friend Annabelle arrived the 29^th of April.

Leslie spent a week and made a set of chaps for the dinghy
They came out good and should protect it well

The beach slide

The University had a beach party one day with a huge blow up slide. We didn’t get to slide down it as it was inflated then deflated many times and we were always on the beach at the wrong time.

Leslie inspecting the booths

Another day was a food fair where there were scores of food booths and souvenir booths. It was fun getting different foods at the booths.

Carl enjoys the party

A mini Volkswagen show

There was also a water front day where again there were many food and sound booths, and there were power boat races in the harbor. They also had come classic cars and bikes on display as well as a bunch of Volkswagens.

Some of the boats racing

Even the Coast Guard got into the
racing atmosphere

A mini bile show too

There is even a Vet that looks a lot like Eric's

The sea weed in the harbor

Trying to get into the marina
with the sea weed

Unfortunately the Sargasso sea weed blew into the harbor as the winds switched for a week to come out of the South and West instead of the normal East. The Marina at Crown Bay was choked with the floating weed.