Stand anywhere along the water on St. Thomas and you are standing on a decision. Not a beach. A decision. From the privately owned wharves of the 1890s to the Danish cut that turned a peninsula into Hassel Island, to the sargassum seasons nobody planned for, our shoreline has been redrawn again and again.
Here is the timeline of how the island's edge became the edge you know and who is out there planting reefs and mangroves to shape what comes next.
