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Day 6: St. Pattys on St. John, Lameshur, Tourist Trap & Donkey Diner Pizza!

It's already Wednesday! How in the world is this week flying by so fast. Like Randy said, its all slow going until you start counting the days you have left and then its over in a flash! HATE THAT.

Our original plan had been to head to Cruz Bay and see the St. Patrick's Day parade because well we'd seen pictures in the past and honestly it looked like it would be some good people watching. Unfortunately, as we'd found out from Ruth the day prior, they had the parade the previous Saturday!

Instead we decided to hit Lameshur with a Tourist Trap chaser.

Lameshur was another first for me. We had ventured past Salt Pond onto the Lameshur road before but never followed it all the way down or spent a day on the beach. For some reason I thought it was rocky. Um. No. It is beautiful.





Again, we thought going quite a bit off the beaten path would leave us with a quieter beach, and again, while a lot less busy than a popular North Shore beach, it was busy...for Lameshur.



The entry can be a little rocky, but nothing we couldn't handle.







Another day HEAVY on pictures and light on words. We just mellowed the day away.



I took a walk up to check out the ruins. Very short walk up a very short hill.

The path up to the ruins, no I didn't wear shoes. It was fine.











Enough exploring. Time to head back to the beach to do more of what I do best.....chilllax!



Ok so I guess this end of the beach is pretty rocky!



Mongoose Sighting



Soon we had enough of beaching for the time being, so we packed up and headed to Tourist Trap to visit with Larry!

Time for a Drink Left, Keep Right. And the resulting slurpie headache!



I love The Tourist Trap!



Being as it was St. Patty's Day the specials included corned beef and cabbage. None of us were brave enough, but LMG had mastered the Gaelic phrase of the day and won herself a free drink. I'll let her tell you the highbrow phrase she added to her vocabulary! Somehow in the deal I ended up with a free drink too! It's good to travel with LMG.

I love the Tourist Trap. It is on the left not too long before you get to the Salt Pond lot. Perfect for a post-Salt Pond or Lameshur late lunch. Larry is the sweetest guy and an awesome cook. Everything is homemade on site in a tiny "kitchen" and the drinks are great. He is the originator of the Drink Right, Keep Left and just generally an awesome guy!

We started with the nachos to share. YUM. Sorry no picture!

I had the grouper taco. DELICIOUS!



My mama had the lobster roll.



I think LMG had the homemade meatball sub. Also, declared delish!

And of course we had a couple of Drink Right, Keep Lefts



And a few Boom-Booms - banana, cruzan creme, and other stuff. Mmmmmmm good!

Ok, so eventually we decided to stop harrassing Larry and his crew and move along.

Back to the house to chill with the pups and have a little mango pale ale on the deck. LOVE this beer! Nothing about this sucks!



Feeling slimy from the day, we all took time to clean up and then proceeded to become kind of like jello on the deck. What a perfect day. That is the thing about St. John for me. No two days are ever the same, but they are always perfect in their own way!

So we chatted and read and listened to music and eventually my belly grumbled and not feeling particularly motivated we decided on take-out pizza from the Donkey Diner!

I called in the Pizza (green pepper, onion and bacon) and headed down to pick it up. Somehow in the process, I managed to misplace my wallet. We got to the Donkey Diner and I reached in my pocket to pull out my little wallet and instead found my iphone. Oooooops.

I recommend if you are going to "misplace" your wallet ever, you do it with LMG around. That girl is a RELENTLESS searcher. We searched the car and the parking lot at Donkey Diner before deciding it surely must be at the house. Headed back to the hosue and searched the driveway, the house, the deck, the car again. Nada. I bummed $20 off my mama (thanks mom )and headed back to at least get the pizza. You gotta eat, right?

Man, I was seriously stressing but also thinking, it had to be there SOMEWHERE. I knew I had grabbed it out of my bag on the way out to the donkey diner. I knew I had gotten the clothes out of the dryer, so I searched all around there. Nothing. Then as if MAGIC, it appeared on the rail next to the laundry room! Ahhhhhh...back to relaxation mode.

Back on the deck, enjoyed another VI Mango ale and had a couple of slices of pizza. Perfect ending to a perfect day!

Tomorrow: Ram Head, Honeymoon, and Aqua Bistro with Rev. Raven!

tick -tock, tick-tock,tick-tock.....Good Grief the next 5 weeks are going to drag by for me, but at least there is a plan in place. Flipper, you're helping me get started early with your reports from the Far Side!
Thanks

Flip, excellent reporting and photos as always!

We visited Lameshur for our first time in February and I too was surprised at how 'busy' it was for being off the beaten path. I was also loving how beautiful it is. We stopped at the Tourist Trap too and love Larry and crew. I also love seeing their huge dog.

Nancy

flip-flop wrote: Lameshur was another first for me. We had ventured past Salt Pond onto the Lameshur road before but never followed it all the way down or spent a day on the beach. For some reason I thought it was rocky. Um. No. It is beautiful.

Great Lameshur (the first beach on your left after the road turns to dirt) is rocky. Little Lameshur (where you went) is sand and coral rubble. Looks like a day well spent!

Ooh, I hope I remember to try the Mango Pale Ale when we get back to STJ!

Thanks for helping me get through the tickerless woes! It has only been a little over 3 months since we have been on STT/STJ but I want to get our next trip planned! However we are in the process of buying a business so we don't know what the future holds for us right now...I hope I can survive these "tickerless days"!

I live for trip reports right now! Yours has been a blast to read! Thanks!

The "secret" St. Patty's day Gaelic phrase at the TT translated to 'Kiss my a$$.' I won the free drink. I am both proud of and frightened by myself for this.

And yes, we were obviously at Little Lameshur. What tripped me out ( ) was how many people were not only there but were also at Great Lameshur. Spring break is CRAZED for sure.

Flip Flop - I'm really enjoying your reports! You've told us about so many things that we have not yet done! Planning a trip for next Feb. I'm going to keep this report handy!

Great job!

catbat wrote:

flip-flop wrote: Lameshur was another first for me. We had ventured past Salt Pond onto the Lameshur road before but never followed it all the way down or spent a day on the beach. For some reason I thought it was rocky. Um. No. It is beautiful.

Great Lameshur (the first beach on your left after the road turns to dirt) is rocky. Little Lameshur (where you went) is sand and coral rubble. Looks like a day well spent!

Thanks I knew there were two and one was little and one was great, but little seemed to big to be little, but I know all things on STJ aren't always intuitive. I didn't want to mislead so I just said Lameshur. Now I know. And I am glad I do! Now, if only I can remember! That's the hard part!


LMG-stop tripping me out girl!