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St. John - Is one of the three main islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands. You now need a passport to get there from the U.S btw.
It has excellent diving and snorkeling and there is a lot of other great stuff to do there as well.
DIVING –
I think the maximum depth at one spot that got to 71 feet but most of the time the max depth was 50-60 feet. A lot of the bottom is at around 45feet. Visibility was around 60 feet until the wind kicked up causing lots of chop, a few white caps, and that brought the visibility down to around 40 feet - still quite nice. Bottom temp was 82 degrees everywhere.
We are new divers, certified in June and St. John was a fantastic choice for us.
Even though the reefs around St. John allow some fishing I found them gorgeous with many fish and everyone seem very happy.
We did 10 dives plus one night dive in six dive days. We saw a small spotted eel, many beautiful reef fish, hawk bill turtles, lobsters, crabs, schools of large tarpon, schools of jacks, sting rays, great barrel sponges and all sorts of black, red and orange corals, a few barracuda, a pretty scary looking grouper with large lower teeth hanging out under a ledge while snorkeling (I think he was a grouper).
Our night dive as AMAZING and I petted a sting ray on the sandy floor bottom, and he seemed to not want me to stop as I would move away he would scoot over to me to continue petting his wing.
On our last dive I and one other diver saw an eight foot hammerhead shark. This is quite rare I was told.
DIVE OPS – We did 11 dives with Low Key Water Sports in Cruz bay. Their operation was great! Each day they took us to different sites and the crew was very helpful, professional and fun. Ellen and Sandwich coordinated everything for us and the dive masters: Forrest, Mary, Jason and Mike led us but also allowed us all the freedom we needed to explore. They knew where all of the best stuff was and treated us like family. The captain of the boat, Bob, was extremely knowledgeable and ran a tight ship. Our night dive was especially exciting and beautiful -- I'll never forget it. I highly recommend Low Key Water Sports in St. John! :-D
TOPSIDE – We went to many great beaches: Cinnamon bay, Trunk bay, Jumbie bay, Trunk bay, but my favorite was Waterlemon Cay which is near the Annaburg ruins. The snorkeling around the backside of the key was some of the most pristine, shallow and memorable shallow reefs I've ever experienced. We saw starfish (which breed there), urchins there and it seemed like everything was growing wild around that little key!
It has excellent diving and snorkeling and there is a lot of other great stuff to do there as well.
DIVING –
I think the maximum depth at one spot that got to 71 feet but most of the time the max depth was 50-60 feet. A lot of the bottom is at around 45feet. Visibility was around 60 feet until the wind kicked up causing lots of chop, a few white caps, and that brought the visibility down to around 40 feet - still quite nice. Bottom temp was 82 degrees everywhere.
We are new divers, certified in June and St. John was a fantastic choice for us.
Even though the reefs around St. John allow some fishing I found them gorgeous with many fish and everyone seem very happy.
We did 10 dives plus one night dive in six dive days. We saw a small spotted eel, many beautiful reef fish, hawk bill turtles, lobsters, crabs, schools of large tarpon, schools of jacks, sting rays, great barrel sponges and all sorts of black, red and orange corals, a few barracuda, a pretty scary looking grouper with large lower teeth hanging out under a ledge while snorkeling (I think he was a grouper).
Our night dive as AMAZING and I petted a sting ray on the sandy floor bottom, and he seemed to not want me to stop as I would move away he would scoot over to me to continue petting his wing.
On our last dive I and one other diver saw an eight foot hammerhead shark. This is quite rare I was told.
DIVE OPS – We did 11 dives with Low Key Water Sports in Cruz bay. Their operation was great! Each day they took us to different sites and the crew was very helpful, professional and fun. Ellen and Sandwich coordinated everything for us and the dive masters: Forrest, Mary, Jason and Mike led us but also allowed us all the freedom we needed to explore. They knew where all of the best stuff was and treated us like family. The captain of the boat, Bob, was extremely knowledgeable and ran a tight ship. Our night dive was especially exciting and beautiful -- I'll never forget it. I highly recommend Low Key Water Sports in St. John! :-D
TOPSIDE – We went to many great beaches: Cinnamon bay, Trunk bay, Jumbie bay, Trunk bay, but my favorite was Waterlemon Cay which is near the Annaburg ruins. The snorkeling around the backside of the key was some of the most pristine, shallow and memorable shallow reefs I've ever experienced. We saw starfish (which breed there), urchins there and it seemed like everything was growing wild around that little key!
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