St. John, An Underwater Paradise

We enjoyed St. John so much our first time through we had to stop again.  We checked into immigration in Cruz Bay on May 16, 2016 and stayed that night on a mooring ball in Caneel Bay.  Most of the bays in St. John are part of the U.S. National Parks and a mooring ball is required to protect the reef.  Our favorite spot is in Francis Bay, a protected bay except from the west with fantastic snorkeling.  We tried to snorkel as much as possible which was easy, all we had to do was jump in the water off the back of our boat and head towards shore.  We have a new waterproof camera and took some great pictures and videos.  We hope you will enjoy these as much as we enjoyed the beauty of this underwater paradise.   We wanted to stay longer, but a part on the refrigerator stopped working which forced us to head for St. Thomas earlier than desired.  We were able, however, to spend seven wonderful days here exploring life underwater.  We saw sea fans, huge staghorn coral, fire coral, star coral, brain coral, Christmas tree worms, pillar coral, and elkhorn coral.  There were stingrays, large parrotfish, hawksbill turtles, remoras, French angelfish, trumpetfish, triggerfish, bigeyes, schools of 1,000 jackfish and many fish we could not identify.  The reef is full of unbelievable colors and shapes making the reef a never-to-forget experience.

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