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If you end up in st john... Posted by AMG [Email]  (#3110)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from AMG) on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:47:48
In Reply to: no, but the ferry runs every couple of hours, nice ride, Tom L, Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:14:02 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
St. John is a truly awesome place if you're the right kind of vacationer to enjoy it. If you look at the linked map on Tom L's post, you can see that it's mostly a large National (rain)Forest. It's as noncommercial as you can get and still be in america. (though that changes more every time I go.)
If you drive the north shore road in a jeep, you're in for an awesome, challenging drive. Stop at trunk or cinnamon bay, some of the world's nicest beaches are on the north side of the island and shouldn't be missed.
Salt Pond Bay is one of the last beaches available by road on the south side of the island, but is worth the trip IMHO. When I first went in 1988, almost nobody would be at salt pond, last time I went a few years ago there were a dozen.
If you just stay around Cruz Bay, you may as well not go there, so you'll need to rent a jeep or scooter, get a map, and go exploring. The Island is like 9mi.. but the roads are twisty and it's really a wild place to drive around. A boat trip around the island was also pretty cool.
It's for outdoor adventures, not nightlife so much, not tons of girls about. (HIV is rampant down there, yikes). But it's really a special place that I will always return to. -AMG
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Salt Pond, why I love this particular beach: A very tranquil beach. Amazing snorkeling off the point if you walk past the beach along the trail to the end. Find a way into the water among the swells, the reef along the coastline beyond the bay is rarely visited by people.
There's also a salt pond behind the beach to the left and if you walk a little further past the pond you come to a crest and then onto a rock beach where suddenly you're exposed to the open Atlantic.
Large waves crash the black rounded rocks, the sound of which is awesome and deafening. Debris from foreign ships washes up here. Seaweed, shells, rocks and trash. You're standing at basically the southernmost point of the U.S.A, looking out on the open ocean. I've explored this whole area. (Ram's Head, if you look at the map) and it's really an indescribably wild and cool place. -AMG
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