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US Virgin Islands Continued
Here are the other pictures from a February trip to St. John Island. See the first part at http://jaredyates.com/pages/stjohn/stjohn.shtml.These are the pictures from two disposable cameras. One was an underwater camera, and one was conventional. As usual, click on a thumbnail to see a larger version.
We hiked from Maho campground to the bay that surrounds Waterlemon Cay. Rather than hiking all the way around the bay, we just hopped in and started snorkeling. You can see the boats in the first picture in the bay. We just stayed with the shore and went to the right in that picture. The underwater sights were not as good as the great barrier reef, but they were still amazing.
Can you guess what this first picture is? I can guess, but I don't really have any idea of what it actually is. The second is an amazing close-up of one of the many hermit crabs.
That wraps up the underwater camera. The first picture in this group includes some kind of rodent. It was similar to a squirell, but not exactly the same. We stopped at the Annaburg ruins on the way to our snorkeling adventure. Since the island was settled by the Dutch during the sugar boom, these sites were built with a Dutch flavor. This particular site was a processing mill, with a wind-driven mill, an animal-driven backup, a distilling room, and a network of support equipment including ducts and storage. All that remains are the parts that were made of stone and metal, since the wood is long gone. You can see the carved coral blocks that supplement the stones. They used more uniform bricks in critical areas like archways, leading us to believe that what we think of as bricks were in short supply. In the last pictures of this group, you can catch a rare glimpse of my fat finger.
These last few pictures are from the school ruins that are a little further up the hill from the sugar mill. Just imagine 300 years of hurricanes, weeds, jungle, rain, salt sea spray, politics, etc. That concrete has seen a lot!
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