25th Anniversary trip to STJ 7-16 to 7-24

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:15 pm

I am not going to do a long trip report or post tons of pictures. If you want to see all of the pictures just click on one and it will take you to the flickr set.
Some things I found interesting, new or unusual on his trip:

It rained every day and on Tuesday it rained all day. But it did not really ruin our trip.
I learned that snorkeling and diving are still pretty good in the rain. Underwater life does not look that much different.

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I saw "rivers" across the road and washed out areas on the beaches. That was something new and different.
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I learned that it is a VERY small world. We met several people from Wisconsin including a couple who owns property on our lake 3 doors down from my MIL!

It was great to meet up with forum folks at the BB. That was not new or unusual but everyone was very nice.

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Sometimes you see your best stuff on the first day!

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Great trip for our 25th!

Barb Y · Post by **Barb Y** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:28 pm

What an awesome video. I have yet to have the octopus experience, looks so cool. Hope you enjoyed your anniversary. Thanks for sharing.

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:34 pm

Awesome pics! What a good looking forum group.

You should do a TR.

Any good meals on island?

msgcolleen · Post by **msgcolleen** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:17 pm

Great pictures and video sea-nile! It even looks good in the rain. How did you like Gallows Point? We are thinking about staying there this time around.
Thanks for sharing~~

deejayjay · Post by **deejayjay** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:19 pm

Awesome octipus. The only one's we've see have been the ones smushed up under something. This was great.

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:20 pm

Oh one more thing! NO sunsets all week on STJ due to the weather! This is the only one I saw all week on the way home over Chicago.

VaGirl · Post by **VaGirl** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:35 pm

That video is awesome!!! I haven't been lucky enough to see one yet. Glad you and Jim still had a good time even though the weather wasn't fully cooperative! See you in about 3 months!!!

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:57 pm

Grommit:
We did not go out to anywhere fancy. It rained at dinner time every night so we did not grill. So basically we ate where we were having happy hour so we did not have to walk in the rain too much. We ate at the Beach Bar quite a few times, at Woody's a couple of times and at Crazy Crackers twice. I can say that everything that I had was delicious! We cooked in twice but nothing fancy. We will go out somewhere nice around here in September which is the real date of our Anniversary.

This IS my trip report. A long one would just bore people.

jayseadee · Post by **jayseadee** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:10 pm

Glad the rain didn't ruin your trip. That is an awesome video. I'm still waiting for my first.

We took our 20th anniversary trip in April (your TR is a lot longer than mine

, but we'll also have our celebratory dinner in September.

INfamily · Post by **INfamily** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:29 pm

Which beach with the huge washout is shown in your picture?

islandjo2010 · Post by **islandjo2010** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:40 pm

Thank you for sharing your great video! We were on STJ last month and were fortunate enough to see an octopus out moving like this as well...so very cool to watch! I was able to get some photos but did not get it on video. Nice to relive the experience!
Thanks again!

Jo

waterguy · Post by **waterguy** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:07 am

Cool pic's and Video looks like it was a good time even with the rain

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:51 am

To answer

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:53 am

Colleen, We really like Gallows Point. It is close to town but still quiet most of the time.

The washed out beach was Hawksnest but they all had similar trenches. I will be interested to see if they are still somewhat there in Nov.

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25th Anniversary trip to STJ 7-16 to 7-24

25th Anniversary trip to STJ 7-16 to 7-24