Late Post From Our St. John Trip

Cristi and I spent our 5 year anniversary in St. john and stayed at the very awesome Caneel Bay. It has to be one of the best locations ever, if you're planning your honeymoon, look here! It was once owned by Laurence Rockefeller and is now smack dab in the middle of the Virgin Islands National Park. The rooms are great and have shutters that open the rooms up to the outdoors (we were woke up one morning by the Donkeys) but it is greatness. No TV's except for the one we all gathered around to watch Grey's Anatomy, Monday Night Football and such at the Breezeway Bar with tons of Bushwhackers (you gotta try this drink). When I tell people how big this resort was, they still can't grasp it! It's 170 acres and seven different beaches just at Caneel Bay. Everything is included, snorkeling gear, kayaks, sail boats and beach loungers. We ate at the Sugar Mill a few times that week, which is an 18th century sugar mill turned into an open air restaurant atop the hill. We had breakfast buffet every morning at the Caneel Beach Terrace, overlooking the ocean, the iguanas, the mongoose and of course the donkeys would walk along the beach every now and then. Here's a few pics, I could spend a week uploading more and still might so keep checking.


Mongoose just running around.

A friendly Iguana.

A big 'ol fat caterpillar.

Our guide letting us hold an urchin.

A shot of the grounds from the kayak.

Another shot of the grounds from the kayak.

A few friends kept coming around while we were kayaking, be sure and watch the video and you can see some more at the end.

Just a pretty plant growing out of the old Sugar Mill.

There is nothing cooler than swimming into a wall of fish!

Me diving down to have a look at something...

More of this huge school of fish swimming all around.

Ok, this really freaks you out while your face is under water and seeing some weird looking feet flapping in front of you.

I had to pop my head up and take a peek, I guess he was hungry and that huge school made it pretty easy.


Ok, last but not least... a little video.