Where is this?

[MikeJohns]

Originally Posted by TeddyDiver

The rocks are granite not limestone as most of the koh's
Opposite view

Looks like the Similans Teddy which would make that Koh Similan (But Richard said that already)
And that is the sail stone as they call it. Island Number 8. (Donald duck bay would be Paul's boatbuilding character .)

[TeddyDiver]

Right Mike .. the rock on the right is the Sail rock and left one the "Donald Duck", and right on, the bay is called the Donald Duck Bay. The "opposite view picture is taken by the Sail rock. Koh means any island.
Nice place, though too much divers sometimes.. popular place among salty cruisers too..
One more view benieth the waves..

[MikeJohns]

This old fort, it was not signed and quite hard to get to. Funny they make a great fuss of old sugar mills but here there was an extensive historical fort with a dark history following a revolution of slaves. On the coast below was a coastal battery with some big rotting cannon lying in their embrasures. Piles of canon ball have recently been taken by fishermen for weights.

Fort built by Denmark, standing on its rampart (no mean feat to get up there I climbed a tree) I took a picture bearing around NE The first ridge is the same territory the second requires passing through border control.

The anchorage was full of live-aboards and I had an exposed anchorage out by the old riveted steel 3 masted ex Great Lakes trading schooner. The photo of the anchorage is taken from a hilltop across the bay from the fort and looks toward it.

What’s the name of the fort?

Frederiksvaern?
Coral harbour..............

[MikeJohns]

Yes Coral Harbor a gift to most anyone who has sailed the Carrib. Hence I asked for the fort (Not Frederik... ) since it seems to be a lost spot in an otherwise busy tourist destination.

Probably one of the older and more historic sites in US territory but purchased from Denmark.

F is the fort B is the related coastal battery. It's completely hidden by the bush and many locals don't know just where it is.

I found it mind boggling that this is not mentioned anywhere in any of the tourist blurb for this island and was not even mentioned in the park headquarters, it's hard to find and unsigned but what the locals called the 'taxi-mafia' can't drive to it so it's forgotten in favor of old cane sugar processing plants.

It is on the marine charts.

It has a dark and horrific blot in it's history But darkeness aside it's a gem, I had a quiet half day pottering around finding old walls paths cisterns and photographing some wildlife with no-one else within miles.

The houses on the hill below weren't there then. Everyone moves to paradise and it becomes another developers cash cow.

The cannon is one of several at the Battery site.

But the name and the history ?

[Raggi_Thor]

http://www.stjohnhistoricalsociety.o...shStruggle.htm

[Raggi_Thor]

Christiansværn

[Raggi_Thor]

From
http://www.nps.gov/chri/historyculture/stories.htm

The wharf area of Christiansted once played an important role in the mercantilist system that linked Europe, West Africa, the West Indies, and North America.

From 1734 until 1803, it was part of the infamous Triangular Trade. Slaves were acquired for cheap manufactured goods at “factories,” or slaving forts, along the Guinea Cost of West Africa, and shipped to the West Indies via the inhuman “Middle Passage.” Along the way, slaves and crew alike faced starvation, disease, and shipwreck . At Christiansted, the slaves were auctioned off, and the ships cargoes replenished with local exports bound for Europe and North America.

Building materials, agricultural supplies, household furnishings, livestock, and foodstuffs were imported to help St. Croix meet the needs of its vigorous plantation economy. In turn, the island exported sugar, molasses, rum, cotton, and tropical hardwood. Especially between 1760 and 1820, wealth derived from sugar, rum, and slaves enabled an extravagant (almost legendary) life style among the upper class of St. Croix society.

St. Croix’s access to foreign markets was interrupted during the two British occupations in the Napoleon Wars (1801 and 1807-1815). With the resumption of international trade in 1815, the United States market increased in importance, accounting for approximately 75% of St. Croix’s agricultural exports by 1830. The sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States in 1917 only formalized an economic relationship that had long existed between the Virgin Islands and the mainland.

It is Fort Frederiksvaern, it is on the Fortsberg (means Forts Hill) and so it is known as Fortsberg

The skinny leg bar is not far..........................cheers



Christiansvaern is on St Croix Raggi, we are on ST John.

[MikeJohns]

Originally Posted by apex1

It is Fort Frederiksvaern, it is on the Fortsberg (means Forts Hill) and so it is known as Fortsberg

The skinny leg bar is not far..........................cheers



Christiansvaern is on St Croix Raggi, we are on ST John.

Ragnar Not St Croix

Fort Berg on the maps. The fort was siezed by the slaves who hid machettes in bundles of firewood and killed the small garison. The slaves held the fort for weeks and the Danes asked the French for assistance to recapture it. After the french garisson from StMartin arrived and negotiations with the slaves they were invited to surrender in return for a pardon but a return to slavery, many killed themselves but the men and women who accepted the deal and walked out were first imprisoned and then inhumanely torn to bits with irons by torturers in the square in st John.

It was to discourage further revolt and show that deals would not be kept with slaves. It was interesting to sit up there knowing the history.


The floor is yours Richard.

PS
Yes I went to the bar, I had an entertaining evening there with a group of truckers from Milwaukee after I was hit by a horseshoe when a very drunk player missed his shot.

Mike, I would like to leave it to you, to make the next turn. I am sailing at present. But of course log in when GSM is in reach.........

[Raggi_Thor]

Sorry, messed up and was carried away

[MikeJohns]

You have to learn not to get so excited Ragnar


OK

This is a fantastic staue of Charlotte Meclenburg (German royal consort of George III of England ) nothing to do with Charlotte Amilie and was outside the airport whre I flew from to pick up my last boat in the Carrib.

Any idea which airport it is?

[Raggi_Thor]

Google suggests Charlotte Airport in North Carolina..

[MikeJohns]

Originally Posted by Raggi_Thor

Google suggests Charlotte Airport in North Carolina..

Too easy don't give us another lighthouse

OK the floor is yours.