Location: US Virgin Islands
Nearest Airport:
Henry E. Rohlsen International Airport at 7
Miles
Nearest Beach:
beach at 100.0
Metres
Car: recommended
Gentle Winds is on the north shore of St. Croix adjacent to Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve. Salt River Bay is a living museum on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is home to some of the largest mango forests in the Virgin Islands as well as coral reefs and a submarine canyon. Salt River Bay’s natural history, its vitally important ecosystem of mangroves, estuary, coral reefs, and submarine canyon, has witnessed thousands of years of human endeavor. Every major period of human habitation in the Virgin Islands is represented: several South American Indian cultures, the 1493 encounter with Columbus, Spanish extermination of the Caribs, attempts at colonization by a succession of European nations, and enslaved West Africans and their descendants. More than a dozen major archeological investigations since 1880, together with historical research, reveal this remarkable story. Few places engage the imagination so completely.