SunDog House Sustainable Solar-powered Caribbean Vacation Rental Villa, with Canines
Top Ten (or eleven)
Reasons to Stay at Sun Dog House
- Sustainable Travel - Your travel dollars go toward supporting a clean and sustainable planet.
- Humane Travel - Your travel dollars go toward saving homeless, starving animals. A no-kill adoption center is included in our development plans.
- Dogs - a fun and entertaining “security system”. The dogs can get bored with us and welcome new people to smell, play with and talk to. You can get your ‘dog-fix’ while away from home, or bring your own, we’re pet-friendly.
- Value – You have an entire house to yourselves, not just a room in a hotel or guest house.
- Cleanliness - We clean our house. We’re not absentee owners who hire a rental agency or local contractors with no stake in the property to take care of SunDog House.
- Private Pool - The pool is all yours, no sharing with loud splashing children, no leering from that creepy guy at the bar. The pool deck is private enough that you can leave your suit on the line. The option is yours.
- Local Hosts - We live on St. Croix and have for many years. We can help you find the best restaurants, the finest snorkeling, fun activities and environmentally friendly things to do. And if there’s something we don’t know, we know who to call. If you need anything, we’re right across the street from SunDog House, 24/7.
- Real Neighborhood - Ever dreamed of living on a tropical island? We did too, and then we made the move. You will get a sense of what actually living here is like. SunDog House is not pretentious. This is not a “gated community”, and it doesn’t have to be. It’s nice and safe, even without a guarded gate.
- You’re Tops - you will be at the top of our list for relaxing massages from Ambrosia Body Care.
- Economic Stimulation – Your travel dollars stay on St. Croix to support the local economy and environment.
- No Tsunami Danger – We are not right on the water, but we can see it. The threat of tsunamis is minimal. Experts say that the presence of a barrier reef and mangroves mitigate the impact of a tsunami. We have both protecting SunDog House.
Virtual Walk-Through As you arrive at SunDog House, two large mango trees loom to your right. They are often laden with fruit, or abuzz with bees among the blossoms. You pass the front patio garden on your left. Red hibiscus, fuchsia bougainvillea and fragrant white frangipani mingle with green palms and pink desert rose. The sweet scent of night blooming jasmine still lingers in the air and hummingbirds and yellow sugarbirds twitter in the trees. At about this point you are greeted by your SunDog canine hosts or hostesses, Ruby and Mini, or possibly the Floppies, Fudge and Bebe. Ruby, a tan Rottweiler mix, is loving and playful, her favorite past-time is to chew tennis balls beyond recognition. Mini is an accomplished hunter. A medium-small Cruzan mix, she can often be spotted chasing down lizards or other critters.  The Floppies, half-brother and sister, are Chow/Lab mixes. Fudge is always on the alert, protecting you and the property. Bebe enjoys lying in the shade and rooting for grubs. You might catch a glimpse of the newest SunDog, Harvey R. Clapp IV, a gimpy little lab with a broken leg that Terry recently rescued from beside the road. We’re pretty sure he was trying to make his way to our place to join the SunDog team. A steel pin in his femur was needed to set the leg, but he’s healing up nicely and will soon be chasing lizards with Mini or running the other SunDogs ragged with his abundant puppy energy. Continue Tour...Additional Features The house is grid-tied, for efficient and ample electrical storage, but all power necessary to run the household circuits is supplied by the Outback Power Systems inverter and charging system. Sufficient electricity (and more) to power the entire house is produced by 20 115watt Evergreen solar panels and an array of Concorde Sun-Xtender batteries supply uninterrupted stored power in the event the grid is down. Hot water is provided by roof-top solar collector and stored in an 80 gallon insulated tank.
 Castle Nugent National Historic Site, coming soon, will be practically across the street with hiking trails to amazing views of both the north and south shores. Use our well-maintained mountain bikes to explore here, or other nearby sites. Ride less than a mile to the East End Marine Park, home of our famous Great Pond Bay where many migratory birds spend the winter. |
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... Great and Small.
Lizards and an occasional spider are allowed free reign inside and out, to eat mosquitoes and other pesky bugs. Bright yellow Bananaquit (Sugar-birds) and darting hummingbirds feed regularly outside the kitchen window.
...but greener than that.
We are concerned about our watershed, the Great Pond Bay, so no pesticides are used to keep crawly critters out. We just keep it clean! And we ask that you also help in this respect. You can help keep pests at a minimum by keeping food tightly wrapped, in the fridge, and by wiping up spills as soon as possible.