A Danish windwill ruin at sunset on the northeast end of St. Croix. Buck Island Reef National Monument is in the background.

View from Danish windmill ruin of Buck Island Reef National Monument.

Point Udall Millennium Monument. A sundial was erected here, the easternmost point of United States Territory to commemorate the coming of the new millennium . The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come."

Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come."

Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come."

The Virgin Islands - tropical or desert? Cactus on the north side of St. Croix looking toward Buck Island Reef National Monument.

The Virgin Islands - tropical or desert? Shallow stream and rainforest on the west end of St. Croix.

View of Buck Island Reef National Monument from Chenay Bay on Green Cay.

Looking ENE from Chenay Bay Beach towards Green Cay to left and Buck Island to right.

Green Cay from Chenay Bay.

Strange wave refraction pattern apparent in aerial photograph as swells encounter large merchant vessel

Aerial view of patterns in a coral reef.

Aerial view of patterns in a coral reef.

Aerial view of patterns in a coral reef.

Aerial view of patterns in a coral reef.

Tropical popcorn cumulus at sunset.

Buck Island Reef National Monument - a jewel in a tropical sea.

Buck Island Reef National Monument - a jewel in a tropical sea.

Buck Island Reef National Monument - a jewel in a tropical sea.

Aerial view of Udall Point at the east end of St. Croix.

Aerial view of west side of Salt River Bay.

Aerial view of Salt River Bay.

A grounded Russian merchant vessel off the El Morro at the entrance to San Juan Harbor.

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Aerial view of Carambola Beach Resort - west end of St. Croix.

Aerial view of Salt River Bay

Aerial view of Salt River Bay

The meeting of land, reef, and sea.

The meeting of deepsea and reef. Note channel in upper left -- headed into Christiansted.

Point Udall, the easternmost point of U. S. territory in the Western Hemisphere. Note wave refraction patterns in the shallow water to the left of the point.

Green Cay and Chenay Bay.

A view of Christiansted.

Great Pond Bay along the south coast of St. Croix.

Great Pond Bay along the south coast of St. Croix.

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The yacht harbor at Ventura.

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Beaver tail cactus growing next to the port at Port Isobel

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