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Son of News Roundup « Gerry Canavan 2009

En route, we'd check out the shelf where departing Maho-ites left sunscreen, paperbacks and half-consumed jars of peanut butter for those of us lucky enough to be staying on (a vote of thanks to whoever left the battered beach chair).

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

We'd signed up for a week at Maho, a cluster of eco-friendly tent cabins on the island's northwest coast.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

Maho Bay Camps was created in the mid-1970s by eco-capitalist Stanley Selengut, sometimes called the father of ecotourism.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

Cats stalked the pavilion in search of scraps -- were they new to Maho, or had we fed their ancestors two decades before?

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

Back in 21st-century Maho, the real world wasstarting to intrude.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

It's not that Maho chooses to freeze its guests out of some misguided philosophical Puritanism.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

Here was Lizzie, the girl who'd inherited her grandfather's mountaineering gene, testing her night vision by eschewing a flashlight as she strode barefoot around Maho in the dark.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

Ecological awareness wasn't what sold us on Maho, though.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010

At Maho, we made our way across the hillside boardwalk to tent cabin A-18.

Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories 2010