Our first port of call was St. Thomas.
This was the view from our cabin when we woke up.
We had a shore excursion to Magen's Bay
which is on the other side of the island from the bay pic.
We rode in an open sided bus through the port town and I took pictures out the side.
There were some nice clean looking properties.
Some colorful buildings. 
Some colorful fruit sellers. 
A colorful store AND owner.
(Note the eyepatch...arghh matey!)
An even MORE colorful building.
and MORE colorful characters.
Then we headed at great speed up the hill.
Past what our guide Lawrence called the "castle".
More hillside.
Top of the hill looking back at the bay and the ship.
Those cruise ships are beasts!
Finally,
Magen's bay.
Named after Magen Fairchild of "The Fairchilds"
National Geographic lists it in the top 10 beaches of the world.
It did have amazingly blue water and dazzling white sands.
The water was warm, clean and very relaxing.
But what I liked the best was this ^
OK.
I never could catch it on camera.
This unassuming bird is a Kamikaze diver.
It cruises at low altitude,
then soars and dives straight down so fast you can hardly see it.
Plunges into the water and snags fish. It was mesmerizing.
I think they're called gannets.
This guy was posing for us at the side of the road.
He offered side and back views so we could check out his spiny back.
And this guy was posing for us on the bed when we came back after dinner.
This was the view from our cabin when we woke up.We had a shore excursion to Magen's Bay
which is on the other side of the island from the bay pic.
We rode in an open sided bus through the port town and I took pictures out the side.
There were some nice clean looking properties.
Some colorful buildings. 
Some colorful fruit sellers. 
A colorful store AND owner.(Note the eyepatch...arghh matey!)
An even MORE colorful building.
and MORE colorful characters.
Then we headed at great speed up the hill.
Past what our guide Lawrence called the "castle".
More hillside.
Top of the hill looking back at the bay and the ship.Those cruise ships are beasts!
Finally,
Magen's bay.
Named after Magen Fairchild of "The Fairchilds"National Geographic lists it in the top 10 beaches of the world.
It did have amazingly blue water and dazzling white sands.
The water was warm, clean and very relaxing.
But what I liked the best was this ^OK.
I never could catch it on camera.
This unassuming bird is a Kamikaze diver.It cruises at low altitude,
then soars and dives straight down so fast you can hardly see it.Plunges into the water and snags fish. It was mesmerizing.
I think they're called gannets.
This guy was posing for us at the side of the road.
He offered side and back views so we could check out his spiny back.
And this guy was posing for us on the bed when we came back after dinner.
3 comments:
That is one beautiful beach!
I think you are right about the name of the diving bird. I know it from "Planet Earth". Very cool to see it first hand I'll bet.
Now.. that snake towel?... just plain creepy.
What an amazing trip! It all looks so bright and sunny which would be kind of nice right now! So sick of the gray days up here. Celiac is right the towel think clever, but creepy. It's kind of fun how they do that though. Rachel said they didn't do that on the cruise she & Jake were just on.
LOVE all the pictures! Definitely not lacking in color! My parents are going on a trip, don't imagine it will be documented nearly as well! Thanks for sharing;)
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