St Croix – St John

We were sad to leave St Croix. I think everyone had a good time on this island. Our next destination was another US Virgin Island, St John which as a stop-off before Tortola. The crossing was a bit bumpy but we arrived in good time to moor at Little Lamshure Bay. The idea was to find anchorages like those in Greece where the kids could jump off the boat and swim. However there was some degree of apprehension because of our previous exciting underwater adventures involving stingrays. Chris persuaded the kids to go swimming with him over to an inviting looking beach having sworn oaths that there were no stingrays in the bay. The visibility wasn’t great because of the rough weather, so it was slightly unnerving when two stingray shapes were indeed spotted emerging from the depths. Kids back on board, Chris and I went stingray hunting and found one of them: fabulous creatures they are, so graceful. This one had two “friends”, small fish who followed him around (he was small, so we think it was a him). It was a lovely bay – so relaxing we forgot to take a picture of it.