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| pretty f'ing sweet waking up and seeing this out the window and then walking outside the room and in 2 seconds you're on a nice tiled veranda |
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| mongoose |
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| in the interior reef bay valley there are petroglyphs carved by the Taino people around 900AD, the dates are very wide as studies continue. People recommended bringing water to pour on them so they appear more visible. |
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| the trees have eyes |
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| Danish sugar plantation ruins. The ghosts of the horrors of slavery abound. The Danish colonized St John's several times and set up 2 sugar plantations. There was a slave insurrection in 1733 but was ultimately put down when French soldiers were brought in. The Dutch finally emancipated the slaves in 1848. The island has changed hands several times and finally was bought by the US in 1917 so they could set up a naval base. There is definitely a feeling of distain towards tourists and I think for good reason. This island has been just a commodity for colonizers and so I do feel conflicted being here just like in Hawaii but here the island is so small and the population so small and the separation of tourists and locals so vast that you really feel it here more. You don't even interact with that many born and raised St John's people because most of the service industry people are just transplants like the charter boat woman from western new york state. I'm sure its complicated for the locals, they need the tourism dollars while at the same time every tourist they see is a reminder of their land and people's exploitation. I hope every tourist ponders this for a moment before going back to their painkillers and burgers. I'll see ya'll later i've got rum to drink. |
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| they used coral cuz it was available |
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| we did a lil hike down to this beach in an attempt to do secluded snorkeling but it wasn't good. was a dirty beach and not good snorkeling. We ate our sandwiches and called our losses. |
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| cotton stainers |
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| wild pineapple |
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| they say Trunk Bay is the most popular beach on St Johns so we went on a weekday hoping for less people and that combined with late in the day arrival worked out there weren't a lot of peeps. It had the second best snorkel besides going by charter boat and the water was probably the clearest of all the no boat spots we went to. Shallow shelf that went out for a long way and mom snorkeled for like over an hr |
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| over the mountain the lights of party island St Thomas light up the atmosphere. We were all glad to not be on party island in our little private oasis listening to vintage Caribbean tunes, drinking rum and laughing with our pals |
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