So we start walking along the road to some impressive mangrove swamp. Ty is obsessed with mangroves and seeing some this huge made him so happy. The prop roots were over our heads!! It was insane. Ty took about a million pictures of himself with the ginormous mangroves and then it was time for us to continue our adventure. This is where it gets a bit tricky...
We walked along the road to another beach where we thought we could walk along the beach to another beach. It was a bit of a walk but we were able to go on a short walk to see a salt pond which was neat and smelly. Once we realized we couldn't walk along the beach (it got really rocky), we decided that our plan of action would be to try and hitch our way out.
There were no cars for at least a mile... We kept walking and walking with no luck. Cars kept going to the beach behind us but none were leaving. That didn't stop us however, we just kept no trucking along. Then we decided that if we got a ride back to Cruz bay, instead of going to cinnamon and doing a night snorkel there, we would jump on the chance. It was getting later, past 4 and we didn't want to miss any chances of getting back to the ferry dock.
Finally, we caught a ride half way. A nice gentleman picked us up and we made it back to centerline which is the road that goes down the center of the island... what else would you expect?
Once we were there, we decided to hang out at a smoothie place until we could catch a ride back. I thought for sure we were going to be there awhile. It had been about 5 minutes when we saw the bus approaching so we hailed it down and got a ride back for a dollar!
The ride back was interesting. There were a few drunk white people which always makes for an interesting time. The couple I was sitting next to were pretty annoying, chatting with an older couple across from us. The younger couple were talking about their horseshoe that they found for good luck, kept telling the older couple how cool and amazing they were and were commenting on the bus drivers speed. "Oh my are we on that movie Speed? I dont really want to die on a bus!" even though I felt completely safe on the bus... Tourists...
Once we got back to Cruz Bay, we took Jake to the VI brewers for a beer and then to Beach Bar for happy hour! We were able to sip 'painkillers' (a VI drink) on the beach and watch the sun set.
After relaxing on the beach with our drinks, we hopped on the ferry and headed back to my place to get ready for our night snorkel! Jake had never done a night snorkel before! We were all exhausted from the day but excited to snorkel in a new area.
We saw lots of cool things, a huge stingray! A porcupine and balloon puffer, lots of sleeping fishes, corals, lobster, sea turtle that swam SO fast and BIOLUMINESCENCE! Jake had never experienced this before so we took him out to deeper water and told him to turn his light off. Within seconds you could hear me and Ty giggling and laughing into our snorkels as we played with the light but nothing from Jake. I asked him if he saw anything and he said... "I see moonlight." So, I told him to wave his hands in front of his face underwater and he thought ty and I were just playing a trick on him to make him do weird things. He STILL didn't see it so Ty went over and moved water in front of him and finally he saw the twinkling lights of bioluminescence.
Needless to say, we packed in a lot and were exhausted. Ty even had to get up early the next day and I think he still hasn't recovered. It was super fun though!!
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