A Beautiful Day in St Thomas

We arrived into St Thomas around 8am and docked at Crown Bay. I could tell it was going to be a beautiful day. It was partly cloudy with a high of 82 degrees. St Thomas is 32 square miles and has a population of 52,000. Charlotte Amalie is the capital.

We met our snorkeling group at the pier around 8:50 and headed to a catamaran called “the Cat”. It looked brand new.

Looking back on the Emerald Princess:

We sailed over to Havensight, the main port in St Thomas, to pick up fellow cruisers from the Ruby Princess (sister ship to our Emerald Princess). We also saw the huge Celebrity ship, Solstice, docked here:

Our catamaran was full and ready to set sail out of Havensight. We headed over to Turtle Cove which I believe is on Buck Island. Here, we snorkeled and saw lots of sea turtles. One even came up next to hubby to catch a breath of air. This is our second time we’ve been to Turtle Cove and the water was really clear. Especially, when we could see the turtles swimming at the bottom.

There were other catamarans and boats with snorkelers here, but it didn’t seem too crowded. We pretty much stayed with our group.

Here is a picture of hubby snorkeling:

We climbed back on our catamaran and sailed to Honeymoon Beach on Water Island. Here we had a true BBQ lunch on the beach! There was ribs, chicken, salad, macaroni salad, beans, etc.

We spent most of our time in the water here. It was quite refreshing.

We headed back and arrived into Crown Bay around 2:30. We were hoping “The Cat” would take us over to Havensight, but not today. We decided not to take a taxi over as we had to be back on the ship by 4:30. Wouldn’t allow us enough time and we weren’t sure about the traffic in town. So, again we were not able to visit our favorite dive shop.

When we got back to our cabin, we were pretty much wiped out from the day’s activities. Since the catamaran didn’t have any fresh water onboard, I spent time rinsing and soaking our snorkel gear in our tub.

For dinner, we ate at Caribe Café. It was Italian night and we ate vegetarian this evening. Afterwards, we headed over to the Explorer’s Lounge to catch a movie…”Wall Street” (second movie). Hubby order two “medium” pina coladas. I have to say, several cruisers around us gasped when they saw the size of our drinks!

It was a beautiful day in St Thomas. The sky was blue with white puffy clouds and the water was very clear. It was a great snorkeling day!

Tomorrow, we’ll be in Dominica and snorkeling in the Champagne Reef.