Tuesday started with a "downpour" according to the locals. Really it was about a 5-minute shower. They haven't seen the rainy days in Indiana. Anyway, this amazing rainbow had just come out when we were boarding our boat. What a great way to start the day - being reminded of God's goodness!
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ok a catamaran to Jost Van Dyke. It was a beautiful day and we had such a great time! We went snorkeling at Caneel Bay - St. John. We snorkeled up to the beach and sat and watched the waves for awhile. There is a resort here and it cost between $1000-1200 a night. It really is beautiful and very secluded. From there we headed to Jost Van Dyke and had lunch at Foxy's..
.the Foxy's that Kenny Chesney sings about. The food was amazing and there was a great little shop there too. Brian bought a shell necklace and I got a cute t-shirt. We had lunch and then headed over to White Bay for some more snorkeling. We were there awhile and snorkeled some more. The coral is just awesome...you can't get enough of it! :) On the way back to customs, the crew put up the sail and we sailed back to St. John. It was beautiful and when we get home, I will post some pics. Beautiful...that's all I can say!Wednesday, we got up and ate breakfast...took the ferry over to St. John and headed over to Hawksnest beach (at the recommendation of Mrs. Kim Mast). Of course, she was right. It is gorgeous there and the water is soooo clear! The beach was not crowded at all and it was a nice relaxing afternoon. We headed back to town with a stop at Woody's. After Woody's, we did some shopping....Brian got a new watch and it's pretty sharp! ;) We caught the ferry back to St. Thomas and showered and we to dinner at Tuscany, an Italian restaurant at our hotel. We came back to the room and we were out! A long - but relaxing day! :)
Today - we were to be at the dock at Off The Hook at Red Hook Bay to depart for another day on the Atlantic. We headed out past Caneel Bay, Hawksnest, Trunk Bay (where Kenny Chesney married Renee) and Cinnamon Bay.
We stopped in Spanish Town in Virgin Gorda to check into customs. We stopped at the "grocery store" there and bought some Pringles and vanilla wafers. Out of curiosity, we "comparison" shopped...the states v. the islands. Milk at Meijer in Mishawaka - $2.19 Milk at the local mart in the BVI - $8.65!! From there we went to the Baths. Now let me just tell you....this was one of the most incredible things I have seen in my life! The Baths are these amazing granite boulders. We snorkeled from our boat to the shore and our guides took us through the "maze" of the Baths. We crawled, swam and climbed through them. There are many different "rooms" and they cover such a huge area...there is no way to see it all. We climbed up the rock with no assistance from anything but the actual rocks. When we got to the top of one of the areas, you looked down and could see the other islands. Then we climbed down and swam through another area to climb up on a rock which we had to lay on and roll down to "fall" into the pool of water. It was scary and fun at the same time. W
e then had the option to go back to the beach with one of the guides or take the "challenging" route to climb to the top of another area and then jump off the boulder into the bay. Of course, Brian and I both wanted to jump off the cliff! I was so proud of him...being scared of heights and all...he did an amazing job! You have to always keep 3 pressure points when climbing through the rocks, which was a little challenging for me with my short little legs...but it was so WORTH IT! :) We then swam back to the boat and went to Coope
r Island for lunch. We saw such amazing places today...Fallen Jerusalem, Broken Jerusalem, Round Rock, Ginger Island, Cooper Island, Salt Island and Dead Chest all along the Sir Francis Drake Channel. What a day!! :) We had so much fun and Rick and Katie (our guides) extened the trip an extra hour! Our very last stop was to snorkel again and we saw a shark! It was just a reef shark and probably about 3-4 feet long! I told our guides I was going to tell everyone at home...It was 8 feet long and showed me its jaws! ha!! This was the best day for snorkeling and we really saw a lot of different kinds of fish. We also swam to the drop-off point. That was also fuscary (my new word for fun and scary). One second, you are swimming and can see the bottom of the ocean and then you feel the water get cool and just like that....straight down and so blue you can't see the bottom anymore! But the fish were amazing!!We had a great dinner - but I will write more about it tomorrow....this is already as long at a short-story! :)
Sorry if this bored you - I will try to post more often so they aren't so long! :)
2 comments:
Looks like you had a great time on your honeymoon! Barry and I were in St. Thomas in '05 and we also stayed at the Wyndham. We never made it over to St. Johns because we had Sawyer (then 2 months) with us. Was the pool water freezing cold? It was so cold we never swam in it while we were there. Sydney says this: oiyoioouhhhhhh8439i9 t8oeoy o ir trty990r9i tu85u857576
Oh, I meant to also say that i'd love to see your pictures. i want to know what St. John was like since we couldn't go. i wish that we could have.
will you bring them with you while camping?
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