UVI on St. John

I got to work at the new UVI Academic Center on St. John this week. It turned out very nice. It has Several video conference rooms, office space and a student lounge area. There are only a few classes going on for the summer session but the fall is looking like a pretty good schedule. St. John students can come to the center to take a class via video conference instead of coming over to St. Thomas. They can also use the space to study or collaborate with students on other campuses. Right now the IT staff on St. Thomas is taking turns working shifts at the St. John center which seems to be working out pretty good. I know I enjoyed going over and looking forward to my next shift at the end of the month.

The St. John community is very excited about it as they should be. UVI on St. John, what a great idea :-)

St. John Spice Cam

St. John Spice Cam, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Congratulations to Ruth and St. John Spice for their successful web cam in Cruz Bay, St. John. Today they hit the 5 million mark! St. John Spice is my favorite store on St. John and the owners Ruth and Ron are wonderful people. If you head over to St. John you have to stop by and check them out. In the meantime you can check out their website:
www.stjohnspice.com/

Congratulations!! :-)

Botany Bay

Botany Bay, originally uploaded by captainjay.

We are attending a little party at Botany Bay today, at The Beach House on Botany Bay. It doesn't suck. Just say'in.

Friday Beach Pic

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Its the weekend! And it finally stopped raining! We had a crazy front move thru that dropped bunches of rain, lightening, thunder, you name it. Not fun at all. But it's Friday so all is good!

Friends of ours sailed over to Culebra for the week. We have definitely got to get back over there for a few days. They've been texting me pics of food, cocktails, beaches, purchases, fresh tuna that they caught, just plain evil. ;-)

So the above pic is Tortuga beach on Culebrita sent to me by my evil friends. Lol

Enjoy!! And have a great weekend!

Ferry on the rocks

Ferry on the rocks, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Well apparently a ferry leaving St. John last night after the fireworks heading back to St. Croix, ran up on the rocks at Great St. James. 98 passenger and four crew had to be transported to St. Thomas. The 5 injured were transported to Red Hook where emergency medical service personnel were waiting. The other passengers and crew were taken to the Winward Passage hotel. The accident is under investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/ferry-runs-aground-usvi-102-people-rescued-145350972.html

http://www.weshallneverforget.com/coast-guard-news/coast-guard-u-s-virgin-islands-good-samaritan-boat-crews-rescue-102-people-from-royal-miss-belmar-passenger-ferry-grounding-in-the-u-s-virgin-islands.html

Boating Video and Happy Fourth of July

We got a new video camera for my birthday, it's a Go-Pro HD. This is some video we shot on our recent triop to Culebra. Still trying to get the hang of the camera. It's a point and shoot camera with different mounts and a waterproof case.
Happy Fourth of July.
Jay

Netflix in de islands

Netflix in de islands, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Netflix finally opened up steaming video in St. Thomas! Yea! Up until this week we were blocked from watching Netflix movies online because we were outside the contiguous US even though we pay monthly subscription. But I received an email this week letting me know that they finally opened up the instant watch feature! It came in handy earlier today when WAPA was off for several hours. I watched a movie on my iPhone!