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The Hike, Take Two

My parents have been visiting since Tuesday which is why Ive had no time to post! I had to work during the week while they explored the area around Red Hook and enjoyed the warm weather. Then yesterday was my first full day off.

The first thing we did that day was sleep in! I had been having to get up early to go to work the days I worked, so sleeping in a bit was necessary. 
Then Ty came over for breakfast and surprised me with a ton of fair trade/organic chocolate! (That stuff is hard to find on island) I wondered why he bought all of it, I thought that he was just being an awesome boy until later he reminded me that it was Valentines day, haha! I had completely forgotten… 

Then Ty drove us to the ferry and my parents and I were off on our adventure over on St John for the day.

After we got off the ferry, we tried to see if we could rent a car for the next day to explore St. John a bit more. Its a beautiful island and I wanted to be able to drive around more but there were no cars available… Thats ok, because we changed our plans and now we are going to Coral World, an aquarium where Ty works, to troll him all day, except I wont do that maybe…


On St. John, we were able to walk to our trailhead, the same one that I smacked my knee on last time... The trail was straight up for about an hour (with stops). Once we got to the top, there were some excellent views! Almost 360 degrees, able to see St. Thomas and many of the surrounding islands. 

Then we continued our hike for probably another hour to the next ridge and then down to the beach where we were able to check out the ruins of an old sugar plantation. Once we made our way to Honeymoon beach, we went for a dip in the water to cool off and relaxed. I then took my parents to the next beach over, Soloman, which was less touristy and, in my opinion, a much better beach! 

 I did some snorkeling there and saw a bunch of cool stuff before even hitting the coral! I saw an eel, large stingray and multiple fish that I could identify. Its fun knowing whats in the water :)

 After the snorkel, I dried off as best I could and we hiked the 20 minutes back to Cruz Bay where we had some beers while listening to music, ate a delicious dinner and got real frozen yogurt! 

 It was a lovely day and the evening didn't disappoint in adventure either. Once we got off the ferry on St. Thomas, it started to rain. At least it held off for the day! Ty came and picked us up in the dingy and my parents loved it, even though it was raining! 

 I was exhausted by the end of the night and was glad to lay down, Im a little sore today from the hike which means I did some real exercise yesterday! About 4 miles in all and about 1.5 of them was up, up up! Good for the glutes :P
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