{"id":705,"date":"2013-04-23T13:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=705"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:08:25","slug":"christiansted-st-croix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Christiansted, St Croix"},"content":{"rendered":"

We anchored in the Christiansted harbor close to Fort Christiansvaern and of course had to go for a tour of this colorful building in front of us with cannons out front. The harbor has all sorts of pastel colored buildings lining the waterfront. Fort Christiansvearn protected the town from pirates, privateers and slave uprising back in the mid 1700s.\"P1010835a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wandering along the boardwalk there are a lot of bars and restaurants, which are really popular at night especially around happy hour. These people didn\u2019t care it was National Parks Week and they could go to the Fort for free.<\/p>\n

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We continued our walk through the streets of town and passed the sights that have been maintained by the National Park Service including Govt. house, the scale house where merchants weighed their produce before shipping it abroad, the Danish West India & Guinea Company Warehouse where slaves were auctioned in the courtyard, market square where the slaves sold their produce, etc.\"P1010743a\"<\/a>\"P1010749a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Almost 300 years of history.\u00a0 Slightly more history than we are used to as a Kiwi\/Canadian couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We anchored in the Christiansted harbor close to Fort Christiansvaern and of course had to go for a tour of this colorful building in front of us with cannons out front. The harbor has all sorts of pastel colored buildings … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-croix","tag-st-croix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}