FOOTLOOSE AND DUTY-FREE; ST. THOMAS The Washington Post | February 27, 2000| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

It's not even 9 this Wednesday morning in Charlotte Amalie and already, as I descend Government Hill into the heart of town, I can see masses of tank-topped and T-shirt-bedecked tourists. As on every other day here in St. Thomas, the most-visited cruise port in the Caribbean, streets and beaches are inundated with port-a-day passengers. These day-trippers are just off ships--that would be five today, with an estimated 7,000 a day crowding an island of just 32 square miles and 50,000 residents. You find them concentrated mainly in downtown Charlotte Amalie, horseshoe-shaped Magens Bay, ...

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