USVI-On-Line

We will be on Island January 22 to January 29, staying in a villa up in Virgin Grand Estates. Although we have made many trips to St John, we have never been fortunate enough to stay in a villa there during high season.
We have spent maybe 8 days on St John and St Croix doing day trips off cruise ships, usually in late January, and have stayed on STT twice for a week in late January and also came over to STJ for day trips almost every day while there.( Who but us stays in a hotel on STT and rents a car for a week on STJ???)
I can never recall having a drop of rain during the day or evening( maybe overnight) and when staying on STT during this time of year I never recall being bitten by bugs either at Secret Harbor or the Renaissance, even when we were out on the beach at sunset?
So tell me-- do I really have a short memory of Paradise? Did I just have a lucky streak ? Or are there really few bugs and little or no rain in late January- early February?
Please tell me I'm not dreaming and both of these memories are true!!!

Feb is one of, if not the driest month of the year. I think with about an avg. of one inch of rain. This Jan seems kind of wet to me, but we'll see how the next 2 weeks go. My guess is that we were getting rain while you were here it was just between 3-5 AM for 20 minutes or so. At that time, I hope you were sleeping off your bushwhackers at that hour.

Thanks for the info. How are the bugs this week?

It's always better to be safe than sorry. I never travel to STJ without a bottle of Bens bug spray in my bag.

I was there last week and still scratching like a monkey but I was in some places you won't be I'd say that the bugs were the same as most times

We just got back last night. We had 1 full day of rain and 2 half days. The bugs are quite bad on the beaches. Definitely bring some spray or pick some up on island.

Thanks for the info. We are wheels up in about 14 hrs and I have packed the avon and the deep woods off.

knolmom-- leaave the avon at home. I found it doesn't work as well. Deep woods off with as high a DEET concentration as you are comfortable with is the betetr choice IMHO.