> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bradenanderin.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # st. john - URL: https://www.bradenanderin.com/st-john/ - Published: 2024-03-01T23:01:56.000Z - Updated: 2024-03-01T23:01:56.000Z - Author: erin - Tags: family, places we've been, the boat, winter While we enjoyed being in St. Thomas with easy access to trash, groceries, mail and restaurants it wasn't a place where we could just jump off the boat and swim. We were all looking forward to getting back to somewhere a little more remote where we could spend our days in the water. First order of business once we got there was to try out the new board Emma and I picked up to pull behind the dinghy. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240223_190822683.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240223_190108693.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240223_191903132.jpg) Second - more snorkeling. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2260909.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2290952.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2260888.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2290946-1.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2260884.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2290950.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/Screenshot_20240225-202750.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/P2290975.JPG) Fun fact for Austin - 60% of St. John is a National Park. That means there are lots of cool things to see on land. High on my list was a photo of the window in Cinnamon Bay. ✅ Up until 2017 this 1860 Danish Warehouse was an archaeology museum and the oldest standing building on St. John. Sadly Hurricane Irma completely destroyed it and only left a partial wall with a couple windows still standing. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_165916274-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_170159079-1.jpg) Emma was not very smiley in the photo because somehow she loosened a tooth (thankfully a baby tooth!) boogie boarding and it was sticking way out. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_170042416-1.jpg) She's a worrier, so she couldn't really enjoy the rest of the afternoon worrying about that tooth... but it was nothing a root beer float couldn't fix. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_175603021.jpg) Two days later and the tooth was out. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_213956069.jpg) The next of our land adventures - the ruins of the Reef Bay Sugar Planation. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_184232317.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_183855215.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_184045986.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_183914879.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_183800017.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_184147887.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_173002105.jpg) After the ruins we hiked to some petroglyphs. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_175523159.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_181142194.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_180611001.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_181317111.jpg) There is also a waterfall at the petroglyphs that wasn't much of a waterfall. The girls weren't very impressed with either one - the waterfall or the petroglyphs. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_180736028-1.jpg) We saw a bunch of deer on the hike which the girls said was cooler than both the waterfall and the petroglyphs, so at least the hike wasn't a total bust. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_182230954-1.jpg) It was an amazing week hanging with friends, meeting new friends, handstands on the beach, hunting for lobster and playing dominoes. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_181705738-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_181637876-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240227_233723513.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_231705369.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/53/3753a80f-8fde-4050-bece-f7bceee6e14c/content/images/2024/03/PXL_20240224_221627602-1.jpg)