Nearly 50 floats paraded through Cruz Bay Wednesday afternoon in one of the grandest, most colorful, and crowded St. John Festival events the island’s seen.
Photo courtesy of WTJX
The event was broadcast on the PBS station on St. Croix, WTJX. The TV station’s Web page pictured here also carried the broadcast. Here, the home page showing a float sponsored by St. John Brewers.
These pictures are screen grabs from the Webcast.
The St. John Pan Dragons included about 35 musicians on their performance truck.
Photo courtesy of WTJX
As usual, the St. John Westin Resort had a spectacular entry; dozens of marchers danced in extravagant costumes.
Photo courtesy of WTJX
The parade of dancers, marchers, musicians, and floats (they call them 'troupes' lasted several hours).
Whiule the sun was not beating down all day, and the skies were partly cloudy, temperatures did reach the high '80s, making performing a hot and sweaty experience.