St.Thomas/St.John

Trip Start Nov 11, 2007
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Trip End Nov 23, 2007


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Monday, November 19, 2007

Back in US territory we had to pass through Immigration, but it was way less painful than expected. It was done in the ship and took us 10'.
St.Thomas is not our type of island (to commercial and touristy) so we wanted to visit St.Johns. The bad news it was raining again. We walked to the ferry dock in Charlotte-Amalie's waterfront and caught the 9.00 ferry ($10 pp/way). The ride is beautiful and in a sunny day I would recommend it to anyone even just for a short tour.
 
Once in St.John and because of the weather we decided to change our plans and instead of renting a moped we decided to go for a car (and we were glad we did). The problem was that there were no cars available at any rent-a-car stand. Finally we ended renting an overpriced, only cash, piece of junk, but at least it moved and wasn't too wet in the inside.
 
We drive the north road up to the sugar mill ruins, to Coral Bay and surroundings, but again it started to rain dogs and cats, so we went back to Francis Bay to wait for the rain to stop. And waited and waited. With just 2 hours to our last ferry we decided to re-visit Trunk bay and luckily although it was still raining in the parking lot, there was some sun on the beach (by the way it has very complete facilities with showers, lockers, etc). We snorkeled a bit (lots of friendly hungry fishes but dead corals), enjoy the beautiful views and dried off.
 
The ferry back to Charlotte-Amalie was even nicer than the first time. We strolled a bit, try to buy some alcohol (but found it too expensive) and went back to the ship as it started to rain again.
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