Day 9 - Trunk Bay

Olivia and Anna at Trunk Bay, US Virgin Islands.

It was all about Trunk Bay today. Trunk Bay is located within the St. John Virgin Island National Park and has been the most beautiful beach we have been to thus far. Silky white sand, unbelievably crystal clear water and mangroves to shade the world. What makes it so unique is that it has a small island only about one hundred yards from the beach. The rock formations from that island rock make for a fantastic underwater habitat.

Wonderful little guy attached to some fan coral. Look at it closely.

We woke up this morning around 7:30am to make sure we could get on the 9am ferry. Everyone was somewhat hungry and really were hoping to eat before we got on the ferry, but the time got away from us. So, we managed to belly up to an overlook bar table at Jake's on St. John.

Eating breakfast at Jake's

I believe this is a type of grouper.

Breakfast was very very good and we would definitely recommend the place. Olivia and I both had a burrito, Thomas had French toast and Anna end up eating corn beef hash.

Right after breakfast we headed back down to the ferry dock and grabbed a cab. Off to Trunk Bay!!

This funny looking little guy is apparently pretty poisonous. He is about 4 inches long.

 After we left Trunk Bay we went back to Cruz Bay, the main part of St. John, and stopped in at Mongoose Junction. MJ is a shopping and restaurant area about a 1/4 mile away from the ferry port. We figured we would look around a bit and than grab something to eat before heading back to St. Thomas. Being the Schiffers we are, the masses we calling for food. The matriarch of the clan was more into shopping and finally subdued to the will of the people. We ate a a place called "The Coal Pot." Local cuisine in both flare and food. We order Curry Goat and Stew Oxtail. The meals came with plenty of sides and needless to say - We demolished the food!!!

Thomas and I decided to leave the women and let them do their shopping. We got on the 4pm ferry and the ladies came back a little later and grabbed the 6pm ferry. I drove back to town and pick them up at the dock.

Gray Snapper taking shelter in some elkhorn coral.