Winn's Spring Break Visit to St John
2005

 

 

Our visit to the Annaberg Sugar Plantation Ruins

Overlook from the Annaberg Ruins
The old windmill	Winn at Annaberg
Cactus	Path to the ruins

 

 

Leinster Bay Trail

Trail along the bay	We saw deer!
They were curious, but didn't come too close	Away they go
Sea Urchin by the shoreline	Very interesting big rocks along the shore
Chillin' 1	Chillin' 2

 

 

Waterlemon Cay, Johnny Horn Trail & Ruins

Waterlemon Cay - the BEST snorkelling on St John is around this little island! I wish I had had the underwater camera when Winn was swimming with a huge sea turtle under the sparkly clear water.
Johnny Horn Trail Ruins
Big Termite Nest	View from the ruins
Winn peeking thru the ruins	Really cool flower (unknown variety)
A wasp nest hanging over our heads in the path	Cactus (flowers in foreground detailed in above pic)

 

 

Our Venture to Drunk Bay

the artist begins	and then...
we have "Little Flat Man"	The trail to Drunk Bay has barrel cactus (also known Turk's Head cactus)

 

 

The Reef Bay Trail

We begin the long Journey ( 5 hour round trip without side trips)	Winn & BIG termite nest
Incredible tree is known as the "Elephant Foot" tree, but the real name is "Kapok" tree.	the back side same tree
other ruins along the trail	same ruins - hey! I did go on this trip!
Incredible bee hive inside the ruins	Ruins along the trail
Sugar Plantation Ruins at end of trail (just short distance to the beach)

 

Petroglyph Trail & "Falls"

The path to the petroglyphs was lined on one side by an old stone wall (part of the ruins) and the other the plant known as "Mother-in-Law's Tongue" because it's long and wags a lot.	Winn along the path
Looking up to the top of the "Falls" (which they are at rainy times of the year)	And on the level where we were, a small "pool" at the base of the falls
same "pool"	And continuing to look below our level, the "falls" continue down
The Real Cool stuff are the petroglyphs carved into the rock	same petroglyphs as at left
More petroglyphs	same petroglyphs as at left
Winn sitting on big rocks at Petroglyph site - finally a break for lunch!	In the picture to the left Winn is watching a pair of mongoose fighting. They are noisy squealers. Didn't get a pic of them on this trip, though we've seen many.

Genti Bay Trail & Beach

Genti has a great swimming beach

the path to Genti beach

the view from the path (above the beach)

 

Cinnamon Bay Ruins

This was a rather large group of ruins. Impressive.
	the path through the woods took us by an old Danish cemetary
The Cinnamon Bay Trail was a rather shortish loop trail through the woods. Winn & I were surprised at the strong, sort of sweet scent of the Cinnamon Bay leaf when we crushed a leaf in our hands. I really liked the smell. Now I want a tree on our land too. :)	more of the Danish cemetary

 

Trunk Bay
National Geographic says this is one of the top 10 beaches in the world.
(I think it was rated #5)

We started our snorkel to the right and out to the point, and went across to the island on the left, and all the way around it on the outside and then back to our spot. Great snorkel! They have an underwater trail with signs about the underwater life & coral etc. but we did not follow that. We went backwards :) Please see the underwater pics all the way at the end of this page from this snorkel.

 

Miscellaneous Pics

The beginning of our Journey on St John	at Trunk Bay
Overlook along Centerline Drive looking towards the north shore	the view of Coral Bay
the Maho Bay overlook
Sunrise Feb 28 from our deck	Sunrise March 3 - pastel soft
We sure have beautiful sunrises!!

 

 

UnderWater Pics

look close to see the needle fish


















hey! it's me!


Winn's feet :)

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