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St. John Day 3

This morning, we woke up to the sound of rain. It was such a beautiful sound! We fell back asleep and woke back up around 9:30. We did our quiet times and I thanked God especially for Hope today as it is her 40th birthday. God really blessed me when He gave her to me! Lamar and I decided we would go to Cruz Bay to hike Lind Point Trail to Honeymoon Beach.
I just can't quit taking pictures of our view. Ahhhh..
Before we left.
Mar walking down the steps to our car.
 There is just no way anyone could make it around up here on these mountains without a Jeep. The ride is crazy! There were several times today that I thought we almost died! The cars here just don't care about staying in their own lanes and they drive super fast through roads that are the steepest and windiest I have ever seen. 

Once we left our cottage, we made a wrong turn at the end of our driveway and ended up at a dead end but it was a beautiful dead end with a mosaic of shells in the rocks and the view was gorgeous!

The drive to Cruz Bay was just gorgeous. The mountains here remind me of the Colorado mountains except islandy. They are overwhelmingly beautiful and so big! We got lost on our way but saw a bunch of goats just walking along the road together. It was funny because they knew to get over on the left side of the road when a car was coming. HA! We also saw lots of chickens. 

When we finally made it to Cruz Bay and found a parking place (I prayed we would and right then, God provided a great spot), we went to the visitor's center and saw a Kohler generator there! Then we found Lind Point Trail and started our one mile hike to Honeymoon Beach. It was fun to be hiking to a beach!! It was an easy hike and we just wore our flip flops. When we were almost to the beach, we saw hermit crabs. They roll instead of walk, which I thought was funny!
We found the trail! YAY! Right behind the Visitor's Center.

Mar's ready for the 1 mile hike. :) 
Hiking the rocky trail. It was an easy hike but the sun was intense at times.

When we got on Honeymoon Beach, we got in the shade and put on our sunscreen. I only brought a 15 and knew right away we would need more than that! We let our sunscreen dry in the shade under a coconut tree and then we got in the beautiful ocean! 
We made it! :) 
Yay for beautiful Honeymoon Beach. 
Lamar said he'd never seen a coconut tree. I don't know that I have either.
I love that we could hang our stuff on a tree! 
 After our dip, we got out and laid out until we dried off and then got back under the shade of a tree because we didn't want to get burned and ruin the rest of our trip by being miserably sunburned. Then, we headed back to Cruz Bay. On the trail, it started raining. It was fun to be hiking in the rain...except my flip flops got REAL slippery! When we got back to Cruz Bay, we found the little sandwich shop where Lamar had the best banana bread he had ever eaten years ago when we went to St. John for the day from St. Thomas. He got a whole loaf of bread to bring back with us. I got some chicken salad that was really good. Then we headed back to our car to go to the grocery store to pick up a few more things.
After that, we started on the drive back to Mooncottage. It seemed to take a lot longer than usual but we went a different way. There are so many places along the way that are just so beautiful. I can't believe that there could be more beautiful places in the world. The last few miles of our drive are crazy....so so bumpy that I am sore the next day. The roads are not paved and winding is an understatement. It's just something you have to experience. By the time we got home, it was at least 5:00. We cleaned up a little and then got in our bed and fell asleep. It poured down rain while we were sleeping. We slept until about 7:30. We have taken afternoon naps every day since we have been here. It has been heavenly! 

Then we got up and I ate a ham sandwich while Lamar ate a ton of coconut cream pie. Now we are watching The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O Hara. I like to do two things at once so I am blogging at the same time. 

SO, that was our day 3. I think tomorrow we are just going to stay here and lay out and enjoy the pool. The driving wore us out today even more so than the hike. :) 


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Location: St. John, USVI

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