Thank you responders for your input. I especially appreciated yours, PL3 ,for its concisement. It makes me think of comparing Oahu to Kauhai and Maui. (We have not been to the "big" island). Does St Croix offer similar shore snorkeling to St John? Or must one take a boat to get access to t...

CBama, So what drew you to visit St Croix rather than St John? Or another carribean island for that matter?

We started a couple of threads on the St Croix forum asking forumites to compare/contrast the islands of St John to St Croix. It appears that whilst the members of the St John forum are active, the members following the St Croix forum seem not to be. So, I present my inquiries on this forum to see i...

We have been to St John and enjoyed most everything about it. But, we like to experience different places and therefore are thinking about going to St Croix next year. Figure it is close to STJ and might be similar...yet different. Our primary desire is to snorkel over a healthy reef that has not be...

We have been to both islands but not for ~5 yrs. Culebra has the better snorkeling of the two and a beautiful beach (Flamenco), but the currents are bad there. Viequez has a lovely bioluminescent bay.
Petty crime is a problem on both as is drug use. We would not return,

I blogged the report, so try this link.

http://linward-linda.blogspot.com/

If the link cannot be made, and you are still interested in reading the report, try typing in the above address.

If that does not work and you are truly desparate to read my trip report, pm me, and I'll e-mail it to you.

Thank you all so much for your replies/suggestions. We'll definitely look into them.

PL3 - Tobago and Amergris Caye look beautiful, but we're a little concerned about safety issues there??

We LOVE STJ but, for our 2012 vacation, we think we want to go somewhere we havn't been before.

For those of you who have travelled to different places, which Caribbean island is the very best for shore snorkeling (variety/number of fish, healthy coral) - in your opinion?

We LOVE STJ, but want to try something different this year and are considering STX. While on vacation, we like to spend all our days snorkeling, and our evenings limin on our villa deck -reading and enjoying a beautiful water view. For those of you who have been to both STJ and STX, how do you feel ...

You will LOVE them both

5/15 It was cloudy and windy this morning, so we knew (now from experience) that the north shore bays would most likely be churned up again. HT suggested we try Haulover north or south – thinking that if one was bad, maybe the other would be better. We parked off the road, next to Haulover south. It...

5/10 Up at 0545 to watch an AWESOME sunrise! We had breakfast, and were out the door by 0900. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36006979@N05/5783404259/" title="IMG_1883 by LinwardT, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/5783404259_43d7fd86c7_z.jpg&quo...

May 7 Keeping to the east side, we headed to Salt Pond. OH MY GOODNESS – what an incredible day of snorkeling!!! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/5783955352_f9c612fb56_z.jpg IMG_0161 by LinwardT , on Flickr HT loves the do rag I gave him to keep the sun off his... pate :wink: I snorkeled the R si...

I just used the exposure and color adjustments in my Windows Photo Gallery

St. John – 30th Anniversary Trip 2011 “Let’s go back to St. John”, my husband suggested when we were trying to decide how we wanted to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. “It’s the only place we’ve been that you’ve loved so much that you cried when it was time to leave.” YIPPEE!!! 5/4 After many...