Sea Horses

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mcpenguin5
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Sea Horses

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I was wondering if anyone had ever seen Sea Horses when snorkeling at any of the St. John Beaches.

When we were there in November, I could swear I saw a pair in the water near the rocky outcropping to the right at Little Lameshur. My daughter-in-law searched valiantly to find some, to no avail. Did I hallucinate them?

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Post by hugo »

They are very rare, but people do get lucky. The young --9-year-old or so--son of the Tradewinds publishers saw one in the Cruz Bay Creek right off the NPS dock last year, so it got very well documented. I have only ever seen one, many years ago at Maho.
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Post by Carolyn »

Call us lucky then. We saw sea horses at Caneel, JAn '08. Can't recall which beach tho. Very cool...would have been easy to miss.
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Post by lazylane »

here's the article in Tradewinds from May 2008! How cool!

http://www.stjohntradewindsnews.com//in ... &Itemid=38
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The best spot to see them is off the pier in Frederiksted, STX.
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Seahorse at Vie's

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Yo...I was going to do this in my report butttt. In our Dec trip we hit Vie's a couple of times and each time we saw one just off shore in about 6 feet of water. This is the first time I have ever seen one. I have pic's and a short video of him. God bless..Bill
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Bill in Va wrote: I have pic's and a short video of him. God bless..Bill
Soooo... are you going to post them? 8)
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Post by mcpenguin5 »

The two I saw were about an inch to and inch and a half long. I still wonder... did I really see them. I had a lot of Bushwackers the night before.
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