Snorkel Tour

mom booked a kayak snorkel trip. everyone who does tours are expats, locals don't do it. There's gotta be a lot of factors going on here

an octopus in its nest

southern sting ray

baracuda

kinda big and swim straight at you so here's me freaking out and trying to swim away from it path

The spotted eagle ray, the feather in the cap of my snorkeling career

green turtle

funny looking, people just look funny in general snorkeling

fyi all these pictures are from the tour guide's waterproof little consumer camera that they later sell the photos to you for $45

brain coral

porcupine fish

St Johns 50 - Bobs Best Day Ever

Bob's best day ever started with an 8am call time meaning we had to leave at 7:15am meaning he had to wake up at like 6am. Bob gets motion sick and he thought maybe this time gummies would help him

things were going cool, we saw a little shark, it rained a little but we were in the water so we were warm. But then on the way to the next spot it started getting stormy, the waters got rough and we were haulin' A in our little boat and hit many waves and hit a big 6 footer he said which means scary. By then bob was hanging on for dear life with 2 hands, in the back of the boat, puking over the side and getting hit with wind and water due to our high speed, for like 20 minutes. I didn't take a photo of this out of respect for bob but i should have

we snorkeled the mangroves at hurricane hole, very cool environment.  As we left hurricane hole bob was puking again.

we were having a swell time, the sun came out, we went to the floating pizza boat but bob just had to lay on a cooler in the back of the boat as the boat rocked back and forth relentlessly as we ate fresh pizza and cocktails.

A new day

the rest of the fam declined so we went to hike some cinnamon bay trail up to the america hill ruins

termites

these things are BIG

matching

awesome thing about st john's is you can go from hiking immediately to snorkling. I sat on this rock and my wallet fell out of my pocket which i didnt realize until we got home. The sea did not win though! We went back the next day and they had my wet wallet at some desk and said someone found it in the water. Wow! my license and credit cards were in the slots but all the interior contents which included $105 and a completely filled wine store punch card word $32 and random business cards were gone. I'm guessing they just got washed away by the sea but I do hope some local found that money and not a tourist.

a few games of Yut Nori before bed

St Johns 50 - Doin Island

 

Good Morning St John!

Rainbow most mornings

Spamburger in paradise, but the call is unreturned because bobby was in bed until at least 10am every day

bobbys pill cutter

we kayaked out past pelican rock and had we known how cool the snorkeling around it was we woulda done that and the water would have been much clearer we went to this little tiny bay next to hansen beach cuz in st john all the beaches are publicly accessible up to the high water mark

Bob got gifted by a client this bottle of 18 yr old sherry oak MaCallan whisky which is now 33 yrs old and gifted it to Dad. You don't want to know how much this bottle is worth.