St. John

As soon as we left the protection of the island, in Norman where we spent a relatively calm night, we were hit by very strong winds. Luckily we were going a short distance and were sailing with the wind or the ride would have been bad. We crossed to St John, the Southern coast, and hid in the protected waters of great Lameshur Bay. Very beautiful. Even more beautiful is Little Lameshur, right next to it but we did not even try it because we knew there were only 5 mooring balls.
The wind pushed the clouds away and we had a lovely afternoon. There is a good dinghy dock and dumpsters so we went ashore on a trash run and then went hiking on a mountain trail which supposedly ended in some waterfalls. We never made it because after we had climbed for an hour, and then started to go down we realized we would not be able to climb all the way back up again. Sophia would've, but not us. Two young Australian guys passed us on the way up and gave up as well, they couldn't face climbing back up again. At night it was very windy but there was no swell so we had another good night. Today is Sophia's last day so we are heading for a marina in Red Hook Bay in St. Thomas and we'll do our hiking downtown.