Trip Report - Day 13
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:34 pm
Day 1: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21260
Day 2: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21261
Day 3: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21282
Day 4: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21331
Day 5: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21332
Day 6: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21436
Day 7: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21438
Day 8: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 535#244535
Day 9: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 537#244537
Day 10: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21441
Day 11: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 541#244541
Day 12: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 545#244545
Thursday. Our last FULL day on the island.
We woke up around 8 and headed to Donkey Diner. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed the coffee 'n hash. (Beef brisket, homefries, bbq sauce with 2 eggs over easy....drooling now.) My husband got the [huge] sampler platter.
Tummies full, we left around 9:45am, sad that this would be our last trip to DD until next year.
We arrived at Maho around 10am. It's only fitting that we go to a favorite beach on our last full day. Maho is my husband's FAVORITE. It's up there on my list, too, especially after this year seeing all those TURTLES and other goodies!
We set up shop on the left side, and snorkeled to the left by the rocks.
Y'all.
We saw a TARPON for the first time.
Let me just say that at first, we mistook the tarpon for a shark.
Not good. Panic. Then we blinked a few times and realized, no, not shark, but HUGE FISH. Semi-panic again. OMG, this thing was at LEAST 5 feet long, and as big as we were. ARRRRGGGH!!! Slowly turn and slowly head back to shore to recover from shock. And you know we kept looking behind us on the way back to shore to make sure that tarpon wasn't tailing us... 
.[Hey - no fussing about that picture of the tarpon. It was all I could do to hold the camera steady. I most definitely wasn't going to get any closer for a better shot. ]
Back on dry land (praise the Lord), I walked along the shore and watched a stingray in the shallow water.
After my nerves were calmed , I walked to the middle - middle/right where the seagrass is, and swam out to be greeted by three turtles!!!! First I swam with a baby, and then a large one for over an hour! It was amazing just hovering and watching the turtle eat. I loved it when he/she would pop up and take that breath of air - poof - and dive back down to dine some more. I could have stayed here and hovered all day, since he/she didn't show any signs of stopping eating. However, I knew my husband had to be wondering where I was (he sat this one out and read on the shore - I THINK because of the tarpon scare, but of course he didn't admit that 
), so I sadly headed back to the left side, knowing that THIS was my last snorkel of the trip.
At least it was a FANTASTIC snorkel! Especially the not-getting-eaten-by-a-shark-and/or-tarpon part!
So long Maho!!! Until next year!
We left Maho around 2 and headed to the Smoothie Truck for some Dessert in a Cup. We said that we'd like to share, so we were given the "leftovers" in another cup. The "leftovers" were basically another whole smoothie. SCORE!! So delish!!! We talked to the sweet lady manning the truck for about 45 minutes just about whatever. She was so nice. Too bad I have forgotten her name!
We got back to the cottage around 3:30ish, and my husband cleaned out the jeep. We tidied up the cottage and packed as well.
We left around 4:45 to return a movie we rented, and headed to Morgan's Mango for our "last meal."
Remember - I won't eat here for Lobster Night again (see day 11), but I WILL eat here for apps and other awesomeness!!!
And that's just what we did. We sat at the bar (bartender Andrew was the BEST!), which was more fun and cooler (literally and figuratively )than a table! We split a lot of stuff - an appetizer of chorizo, shrimp, and rice (forget the name); a beef, mushroom, and sweet potato stew; the pork tenderloin in the coconut curry sauce, and a key lime pie slice to go. The coconut curry sauce was divine. I asked for extra, which I got, and dipped pretty much EVERYTHING into this sauce. DELISH! We had the BEST mojitos here. I've been trying them all over town since returning, but none have measured up so far!!! Reason #293048 we're going back to STJ again next year! We enjoyed the key lime pie while watching Big Brother.
I got a Pandora turtle charm from Jewels, and we were home by 7:15.
Our last night on island. Sigh.
Day 2: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21261
Day 3: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21282
Day 4: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21331
Day 5: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21332
Day 6: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21436
Day 7: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21438
Day 8: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 535#244535
Day 9: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 537#244537
Day 10: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... hp?t=21441
Day 11: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 541#244541
Day 12: http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... 545#244545
Thursday. Our last FULL day on the island.
We woke up around 8 and headed to Donkey Diner. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed the coffee 'n hash. (Beef brisket, homefries, bbq sauce with 2 eggs over easy....drooling now.) My husband got the [huge] sampler platter.
Tummies full, we left around 9:45am, sad that this would be our last trip to DD until next year.
We arrived at Maho around 10am. It's only fitting that we go to a favorite beach on our last full day. Maho is my husband's FAVORITE. It's up there on my list, too, especially after this year seeing all those TURTLES and other goodies!
We set up shop on the left side, and snorkeled to the left by the rocks.
Y'all.
We saw a TARPON for the first time.
Let me just say that at first, we mistook the tarpon for a shark.
Not good. Panic. Then we blinked a few times and realized, no, not shark, but HUGE FISH. Semi-panic again. OMG, this thing was at LEAST 5 feet long, and as big as we were. ARRRRGGGH!!! Slowly turn and slowly head back to shore to recover from shock. And you know we kept looking behind us on the way back to shore to make sure that tarpon wasn't tailing us... .[Hey - no fussing about that picture of the tarpon. It was all I could do to hold the camera steady. I most definitely wasn't going to get any closer for a better shot. ]Back on dry land (praise the Lord), I walked along the shore and watched a stingray in the shallow water.
After my nerves were calmed
, I walked to the middle - middle/right where the seagrass is, and swam out to be greeted by three turtles!!!! First I swam with a baby, and then a large one for over an hour! It was amazing just hovering and watching the turtle eat. I loved it when he/she would pop up and take that breath of air - poof - and dive back down to dine some more. I could have stayed here and hovered all day, since he/she didn't show any signs of stopping eating. However, I knew my husband had to be wondering where I was (he sat this one out and read on the shore - I THINK because of the tarpon scare, but of course he didn't admit that ), so I sadly headed back to the left side, knowing that THIS was my last snorkel of the trip. At least it was a FANTASTIC snorkel! Especially the not-getting-eaten-by-a-shark-and/or-tarpon part!
So long Maho!!! Until next year!
We left Maho around 2 and headed to the Smoothie Truck for some Dessert in a Cup. We said that we'd like to share, so we were given the "leftovers" in another cup. The "leftovers" were basically another whole smoothie. SCORE!! So delish!!! We talked to the sweet lady manning the truck for about 45 minutes just about whatever. She was so nice. Too bad I have forgotten her name!
We got back to the cottage around 3:30ish, and my husband cleaned out the jeep. We tidied up the cottage and packed as well.
We left around 4:45 to return a movie we rented, and headed to Morgan's Mango for our "last meal."
Remember - I won't eat here for Lobster Night again (see day 11), but I WILL eat here for apps and other awesomeness!!!
And that's just what we did. We sat at the bar (bartender Andrew was the BEST!), which was more fun and cooler (literally and figuratively
)than a table! We split a lot of stuff - an appetizer of chorizo, shrimp, and rice (forget the name); a beef, mushroom, and sweet potato stew; the pork tenderloin in the coconut curry sauce, and a key lime pie slice to go. The coconut curry sauce was divine. I asked for extra, which I got, and dipped pretty much EVERYTHING into this sauce. DELISH! We had the BEST mojitos here. I've been trying them all over town since returning, but none have measured up so far!!! Reason #293048 we're going back to STJ again next year! We enjoyed the key lime pie while watching Big Brother. I got a Pandora turtle charm from Jewels, and we were home by 7:15.
Our last night on island. Sigh.
(S/O was say definitely!!!).
They won't give you any grief!!! All they want is the little frye. We dive with them alot! Now a scarry time was last summer when we came across a big boy barracuda!