“This was the place where you have to do your shopping”, the girl in the boat’s advertising channel said. The shops in downtown Charlotte Amelie are amazing”, “You get an additional $2,000 tax-free allowance”. I thought if I really wanted to save money on my shopping I would take a $20 cab ride to Michigan Ave, instead of taking a $2,000 cruise.
When we woke up, the day could not have been better. It was very sunny (the way is supposed to be). After waiting for the immigration process we headed out to downtown Charlotte-Amelie to try to find good deals on tours. We saw the sailboat tour we wanted to get from our ship making a stop in downtown to pickup some people. There weren’t many tours going to the little island we wanted to go, so we joined this tour. Turtle Cove, a little beach on Buck Island off of St. Thomas where they had shipwrecks and you could swim with sea turtles. On our way there we heard music on the sailboat that sounded really cool after hearing nothing but oldies in our cruise ship (if I heard the Shrek song one more time I would either shoot myself or jump from the ship). We started snorkeling, swimming over a sunken boat. There was some mysterious “X-files” like story behind this sunken boat, but I was too busy looking at the fishes to hear the whole story. I touched a sea urchin and held it above water as it was holding on to my hand. Britney did it too. We didn’t get to see any turtles because the sea was too rough in that side of Cove Island. .jpg "Saint Thomas") Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands
We snorkeled for a while and went back to the boat. Some guy started yelling very excited about some fishes that he could see from the boat. After we saw them I was like “dude, these are the same fishes we’ve been looking for over two hours underwater”. On our way back to St Thomas I had approximately 20 pina coladas. It was at this point when I started to feel this was the coolest tour ever. That was of course, until I sobered up.
Back on St. Thomas we decided to go to Megan’s Bay, a beach rated by National Geographic as one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world. I don’t know what was their rating system, but I have to say that it was at least in my top ten. It was a nice little bay with lots of vegetation, white sand, nice view, warm water, nice houses that blended in and great facilities, it had it all. We stayed there for the rest of the day.
When we came back to the ship we stopped by Charlotte Amelie to do our shopping, which consisted on a T-shirt and a $10 bracelet
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