Thursday, October 11, 2007

Things to do in St. John

Well well well ... St. John is just a short 30 something days away! FINALLY.

Here is my recently compiled list of things to do. It may take me 10 trips to get it all done but this is a start. I don't even want to do some of the things on this list but I did want to keep track of all the possibilities!

Bold things I have done.
Bold italics things are things on the list for this trip.

TREATS

Cocoberry Shake from that place in Wharfside
Mojito from Joe's Rum Hut
Ice cream from I Scream
Colombo's
Any Smoothie from the smoothie truck
Garlic Chicken & Tarts @ Vie's

A hot dog at Beach Dawgs
Root Beer @ the Tap Room
Candy's Barbeque (some say its better than Uncle Joe's)
Uncle Joe's BBQ & ALL the sides to go back to the house

Baked in the Sun sandwiches
Steak Sandwich and Crab Wontons at the Beach Bar
Potato Salad at Starfish Market
Create a Beach smorgasboard at Deli Grotto
West Indian treats - Sogo's (across from Lime Inn)
Appetizers and drinks at Zozo's bar @ sunset
fresh greens from Josephine
freah tuna or mahi-mahi, either by the dock or at the Fish Trap Market
Orange cake at Mosqito Bites

RESTAURANTS

Rhumblines
Donkey Diner especially breakfast
ZoZo's
Inn at Taramind Court esp breakfast
Sweet Plantains
Miss Lucy's
La Tapa
Maho Bay - esp breakfast
Island Blues - esp that drink w/ nutmeg

Aqua Bistro
Cafe Roma
JJs Texas Coast - esp breakfast
Pastory Gardens
Skinny Legs
Shipwreck Landing Restaurant
A
solare Sunset dinner
Happy Fish - sushi
Mosquito Bites - full breakfast & the orange cake!

BARS

Woody's
Beach Bar
Go to the Tap Room for a VI Pale Ale (Free WIFI)
Sputnik
Quiet Mon
Front Yard
Gecko Bar
Compass Rose (Free WIFI)

BEACHES/SNORKELING

Salt Pond
Vie's Beach
Hawsknest
Maho - kiddie friendly
Gibney
Francis Bay
Caneel Bay
North side of Haulover, Pelican Rock and Paradise Point
Drunk Bay
Honeymoon beach
Night snorkeling
Lime Tree Beach
Snorkel at Turtle Beach at Caneel Bay
Snorkel Chocolate Hole
Denis Bay
Jumbie
Trunk Bay
Cinnamon Bay
Honeymoon

HIKES

Hiking Reef Bay *maybe (stand on Reef Bay and look back up the hillside, you are getting the same view that has existed since the island was formed)
Waterlemon - hike and snorkel
Brown Bay hike and beach
Ram Head Trail
Solomon & Honeymoon Beach hike
hike to Drunk Bay & Blue Cobblestone Beach from Salt Pond

EVENTS/SPECIALS

Sunday Jazz @ Beach Bar
Pastory @ sunset Happy Hour 3-6. Drinks $1.00 off
$3 painkillers at Beach Bar on Sunday afternoon
Arrange a Forum Happy Hour w Pia & Ruth
Morgan's Mango Mango Margaritas and Tuesday Lobster Night
Full Moon Party @ Miss Lucy's

ON ST JOHN

Rent a dinghy
Cook more at the Villa
Watch the sunset from the Villa
Drink in the pool
Sunset Sail
Go to the other side of the island (Coral Bay).
Learn to dive...
kayak to Hurricane Hole from Crabby's
learn to sail this 35' Du Four sloop called Gypsy Spirit around the island
Visit the Animal Shelter
Kristen Maize showing at the Michael Banzhaf Gallery
Nightdive
Book a massage & Scrub with Nomadic Spa
Play mini golf at Pastory Gardens

OFF ST JOHN EXCURSIONS

Rent power boat for BVIs - Ocean Runner
Jost Van Dyke in power boat from OR w/captain
Virgin Gorda
Day Sail to the BVIs
Ferry to Tortola
Ferry to Jost

SHOPPING

St. John Spice - Say Hi to Ruth!
Mongoose Junction
Pink Papaya
Jolly Dog & Skinnys
Freebird
The Body Deli

1 comment:

Marietta said...

I feel so behind. I might just have to "borrow" some of your ideas! :-) Don't worry, once the shock that I'm really going wears off, I'll be into researching...but yikes! 30 days! I have to get on that.