Dear St. John friends, Just loaded a new set of pictures in the site www.doppstein.com/SJ07 with more coming soon. For now they are only fish, but will soon include people too. Last night we saw a spectacular Spotted Drum, but was too late in the day to get a good picture of him. Been hunting all da...

the first week of our vacation is over, two too go. highlights so far have been. Sailing on the Long Distance with Rick and Robin, went snorkeling at Flannigan island, amazing. Spending a day at Francis and an aftenoon at Caneel. Dinner at La Tapa, and Roma Cafe. If you want to see our underwater pi...

we are here at Gallows and having a great time. We ate at La Tapa tonight and it is so fantastic I can't begin to tell you what a wonderful dinner we had. If you only eat one expensive dinner on St. John be sure to make it la Tapa. We ate at Ocean grill two nights ago and were very disappointed. We ...

lucky us we will be around from nov 28 till dec 20, have to go home when the rates go up . hope to see you all at the beach bar on the 4th and the 9th and in between as well.

bob and sharon will try to join you. We are happy that so many of you will be on island.
see you all soon.

Hi all, Bob and I will be at Gallows from November 28 till December 20, would love to meet up.
See you all soon.

Dear Forum Friends, To find an Octopus, you look for the "Octopus's garden". They live in coral caves and toss their dirty dishes out the front door. So you see a pile of fresh shells (the garden), and the hole next to it is its home. You have to dive down and look in – usually you see onl...

We were so lucky to be able to spend three weeks in St. John at Gallows Point. We arrived on November 29, and since it was Bob's big 60th birthday we splurged on the Christopher taxi and the Dohms water taxi. It was so cool to head thru the back roads to red hook and get to the water taxi in record ...