St. John Day 5: Trunk Time

Whenever you see pictures of St. John, you most often see a picture of Trunk Bay. It seems to be the most recommended beach on the island. For these reasons, I honestly wasn't that excited about it. Experience tells me it will turn out to be overrated. This was not the case. It was totally worth it above and below sea. We arrived around 930a and got one of the last two parking spots. Despite that, the beach didn't look crowded.

We found a spot with as much shade as we could get and got ourselves situated. I enjoyed the view for a while then suited up and hit the water for snorkeling.

Lizardfish on the bottom.

Parrotfish.

Doctorfish.

Suddenly I swam into a huge school of small silver fish grouped together in all different sizes. They went as far as I could see. These were the smallest.

Then there were some slightly bigger.

I popped up to see what was going on topside and caught this pelican at the right time.

Flat needlefish near the surface.

There was a lot to see and I had been gone for a long time at this point. I thought Melissa might be getting worried. As I started my swim back to shore, I followed a stingray for a bit.

I lost sight of him and another appeared shortly.

After getting back to shore, we broke out the cooler and had lunch.

We had to leave the beach a bit earlier than usual today because we were booked for a sunset sail leaving late afternoon. We stopped off at the Trunk Bay overlook on the way back to town.

After getting cleaned up, we called Chico and he dropped us off at the boat docks in town. Normally, I don't like these large catamaran rides. I would prefer something with less people. But we found a spot off by ourselves next to the captain and really enjoyed the trip. They collected all our shoes and drink orders before leaving the dock.

We headed out at a pretty good pace.

The building in between these two hills is Windmill Bar where we watched the sunset last night.

It was very hazy out so our sunset was pretty hazy as well.

The cruise lasted about an hour and a half. After getting our shoes back and docking, we walked over to Lime Inn for our 730 dinner reservations. Lime Inn only offers a four or six course price fixe menu. We opted for the four course and started with drinks called Hunter's Passion, a mix of mango rum, pineapple juice, passionfruit, and coconut cream.

Despite the four course requirement, Melissa only wanted three.

Bubu salad

Rum ribs

Key lime pie

I wanted all four courses, of course.

Tuna tartare

I don't remember what this dish was but it was good.

Lobster risotto

Brownie a la mode

We were stuffed after such a large dinner but the restaurant had a cute adjoining shop we wanted to explore. We waddled throughout the store, made a couple of purchases, then made our way to Beach Bar. We thought we might have a drink but decided we were too full and tired and we wanted to continue watching our Netflix series. Chico to the rescue again!