{"id":2986,"date":"2021-12-04T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:15:20","slug":"st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Breaking a bit of our tradition for active vacations\/holidays \u2013 this adventure, to celebrate a milestone birthday, was more tranquil, but no less breathtaking in natural wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We traveled to St. John, US Virgin Islands. The island itself isn\u2019t very large, not much more than 10 miles across. We\u2019d found a cute villa on a hillside on the \u201csleepy\u201d side of St. John \u2013 overlooking Coral Bay. It\u2019s an island, so pretty much if you don\u2019t bring it there, you\u2019re not going to find it there \u2013 unless, of course, it\u2019s a beach or a beautiful sunrise \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, that said, we\u2019ll let some pictures do the talking.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coral Bay Vista, nestled in the hills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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sunrise over Coral Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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An early morning rain shower, moving across the bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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relaxing on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Life wasn\u2019t all sunrises and beaches (and happy hour!), we also managed to find a few trails \u2013 fully two-thirds of the island is a national park \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ram Head trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ram’s Head – open seas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Someone was kind enough to do the hard work of spelling \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d using light-colored shells in the dark-blue beach stones of Cobblestone beach. Fun!<\/p>\n\n\n

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And a few days later, we did the longer Reef Bay Trail \u2013 another out-and-back trail from the main road, through a thick forest, eventually emptying out at an old Sugar mill and plantation. It was very unsettling to follow the trail, knowing that 150 years prior, the area was an active mill, teaming with slaves toiling in the tepid climate to produce sugar \u2013\u00a0read more here<\/a>\u00a0to get a sense of the human impact.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Reef Bay Sugar Mill ruins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Reef Bay beach, not 100 yds from the Sugar Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In all, some beautiful time away, and an island worth visiting for its natural splendor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breaking a bit of our tradition for active vacations\/holidays \u2013 this adventure, to celebrate a milestone birthday, was more tranquil, but no less breathtaking in natural wonder. We traveled to St. John, US Virgin Islands. The island itself isn\u2019t very large, not much more than 10 miles across. We\u2019d found a cute villa on a hillside on the \u201csleepy\u201d side of St. John \u2013 overlooking Coral Bay. It\u2019s an island, so pretty much if you don\u2019t bring it there, you\u2019reRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-21-st-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}