Capturing the perfect scene in St. Thomas
There’s no better way to preserve happy vacation memories than with plenty of photographs and videos. As long as you take precautions to see that your camera or camcorder either isn’t stolen or damaged from exposure to sand and salt water, you’ll return home with your memories safely captured. While you may have insurance to cover the theft or accidental damage to your photography equipment, receiving money to replace it means nothing if your photographs and videos have been lost!
Don’t think, however, that you have to rush out and buy photography equipment before heading to St. Thomas. If you don’t already have it, you’d be very smart to wait until you arrive on the island, and purchase it there. If you’re a United States resident, you can purchase up to $1600 worth of duty-free merchandise while in St. Thomas. In the capital city of Charlotte Amalie, as well as at the Havensight Mall in Crown Bay, you can buy the finest digital cameras and camcorders at a fraction of what you’d pay if you bought one at home.
The largest camera seller on St. Thomas is Royal Caribbean(no connection to the cruise ships) with five shops on the island, including ones in Charlotte Amalie and the Havensight Mall. They carry all the best brands of camera–Nikon, Canon, JVS, Sony and Leica among them–and have been in business for more than 30 years with a great record for customer service. As long as you know what you would expect to pay for the same camera in the US, and are willing to do some negotiating, you can almost certainly get a better price on it in St. Thomas!
Even if you don’t have the budget to purchase a digital camera in St. Thomas, you can still capture your vacation memories with a disposable camera. The quality of the pictures won’t be as good as those taken with a digital camera, but you can improve them if you have your disposable camera pictures placed on a CD when they’re developed. You can then use your PC to enchance the photos.
There’s no other place on St. Thomas to get some marvelous vacation memories, than at the former United States communication station on the summit of Saint Peter Mountain. From this location you can view 20 of the islands surrounding St. Thomas, and was named by National Geographic Magazine as one of the top 10 views on the entire planet! It’s certainly a view you’ll want to preserve on film, and it might look even more stunning after you’ve had one of the famous Mountain Top banana daiquiris!
Perhaps your trip to St. Thomas will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Or it might be only one of many happy vacations you spend there. Whether it’s the first-and-only, or the first-of-many, it deserves to be preserved in photographs, as do all the St. Thomas vacations which follow it!
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