St. John's in a US national park, and even though it's in the Caribbean, it definately has the feel of a national park. Great news is that because Blair has a Gold Pass for the National Parks, our buoy was only $13 per day. 

I absolutely loved the pieceful environment of the 2 anchorages we stayed at. The first one was Lameshure Bay on the south side. We met a lovely volunteer who lives on his boat, and has been coming down to St. John for almost his entire life.

We spend the time hiking and snorking off the back of the boat. I continued to work on my underwater videos, and learning how to edit from my gopro app. 

After a couple of days we decided to sail around to the North Side of St. John's to an anchorage. We learned a valuable lesson with Navigation. We had motored to the east end of St. John by the town of Cruz Bay. Blair had set the autopilot to go a bit further off shore, so that we weren't too close to the shore and rocks. He went down below befiefly and asked me to stand watch. I was noticing some breaking waves, and since there were a lot of ferries around, I thought the breaking waves were caused by the ferries. All of a sudden I realized that we were actually going to hit a corel head as it was only about 50 yards in front of us. I called Blair to come quickly, and he was able to steer us away from the coral reef. From now on, we pay closer attention to the Navionics route, and also look at depths closer, and don't assume that just because you're farther away from an Island you are less likely to hit a reef. 

Our next stop was Waterlemon Bay... Yes that's right... Water LEMON. Even though there weren't a ton of fish here, I did start to improve my photography, and got some great shots of Turtles and Rays. They like to hand out in about 15 feet of water usually about 30 yards of the shore. 

On the last day, we went for a hike at the Annaberg Sugar Plantation. Outdoor Museum. It was very interesting and told about both how the slaves were treated and how they lived, but also about all the changes of control from different countries on St. John. It was nice to finally get historical information that was helpful, because in all the French speaking counties , all the information is in French, and we don't speak French well enough to get any value of the museums. 

After just a few days it was off to another country...Only 6 miles away!