We spent a week in gorgeous St. John. This was our first trip to the Caribbean. The water has indescribable beauty and warmth. It is spectacular in so many ways. We were blessed with great opportunity to photograph a friends wedding and stay with all the family for our week stay on the island. We lived a life style that most dream of. Our accommodations were sprawling gigantic villas with sweeping views overlooking blue lagoon bays and on out to the British Virgin Islands. The weather was pretty hot and humid which I think is normal for the time of year [View Full Entry]

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Embracing the Rhythm of Life: Yoga and Drumming in the Caribbean Life is a series of stories. As a story is in the business of stringing words together to create an idea or image, life is a string of moments, each one holding an instant of our past, a teaspoon of our future, some with sugar, some with spice, some with smelly things we’d rather not encounter at all. Together, these beads of moments create the story of our lives, which in turn create the collective story of human society, of our planet and its species; all of this folds into [View Full Entry]

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After all the commotion of St. Thomas, such a big port town, we were ready to get back to St. John again. So we set sail, well not literally because we still have no main sail, but that is another story for another blog. More accurately we motored on to Leinster Bay, only 5 miles away on the north side of the island. Luckily all the islands here in the USVI and BVI are incredibly close together so it was a short trip. Not only can you see the next island in the chain, but almost all of the islands in [View Full Entry]

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The island of St. John is very different than the other USVI in that it is a National Park. Roughly two thirds of the island is protected and therefore pristine. There are no houses, hotels, shops, or restaurants within the park boundary. The anchorages are tucked into natural bays, in the shadow of the lush mountainside with beautiful beaches and deep aquamarine water- absolutely gorgeous. The National Park was expanded in 2001 to include the surrounding reefs and seabeds. In fact the park service provides mooring balls for boaters to use which help alleviate the damage from anchoring. [View Full Entry]

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We had been here on a cruise before, not much has changed, other than there seems to be more boats. We anchored outside, between the 2 islands. Was quite bouncy, as the ferries don not slow down, back and forth, come and go. We left Cheetah II and Non Linear and headed for Virgin Gorda. [View Full Entry]

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So we woke up early and made it back to St. John with very few problems other than late taxis and delayed ferries. We went back to this place called Shela's Pot for lunch and some local flavor. It was recommended to us by our fellow group siters back at Cinnamon Bay after we'd complained we hadn't had a real Caribbean meal, and it did not disappoint. It's basically a small stand on the main square in Cruz Bay, a stone's throw from the ferry dock, with a little woman in a white cap behind it serving unbelievable home-made food. The [View Full Entry]

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John 1:1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was good. St. John is paradise, if you are into the whole rum drinks under swaying coconut palms on tropical white sand beaches thing, which we discovered we are after studying in the cold February mountains of Virginia! We had a free ticket on Spirit Air and I knew that I loved the Virgin Islands, it was the best family vaction we ever took. So I was excited to camp at Cinammon Bay in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John. (I convinced Martina it was better than flying [View Full Entry]

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We had one whirlwind day on St. John. Really we're cutting things way too short on this beautiful island, but 10 days is all we had allocated for the Caribbean, and we can't change the dates on our first US leg per rules of the around-the-world ticket. The four of us began the day with an early trip to Trunk Bay and leftover baked goods from Havensight Bakery. Trunk Bay, along with Magen's on St. Thomas are routinely rated in the top 10 beaches in the world. Most of St. John is a national park, donated about 50 years ago by [View Full Entry]

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I spent a little over a month work on St.John at Maho Bay. It was a great time with some great people, I really miss all of you! Jill dropped everything she was doing in the states, charged her card and came down to backpack the BVI with me for 2 weeks. I have more pics, but I'm really sick of looking at this computer screen! [View Full Entry]

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