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Sometimes you need a little motiation to have a strong finish for the week. Here is mine. Looking forward to some jetskiing this weekend at Magen’s Bay. I still need to figure out where to get some waterproof iPod speakers so I can loop the Miami Vice theme song while skipping across the waves.

Secondly I wanted to see what people thought of the picture quality I’ve been posting. So far I’ve only been blogging from my iPhone which is super convenient with Blogger’s email style posting (beach blogging!). It also means I’m restricted to the iPhone’s 2 megapixel camera (which isn’t horrible), but I do have my Sony T200 8MP camera for hi-res shots as well.

Thoughts?

Average temp in St Thomas 82, tonight’s temp: 77.I realized that you may have spent too much time on a Caribbean island
if everyone around you is in hoodies and you’re complaining that it’s
“a little chilly” when it’s 77 degrees out.

Also, I just wanted to complain about the signal to noise ratio of
certain mailing lists. It irks me that while some of us are busy
grinding it out others are involved in long threads on the correct
location to have another conversation.

And yes I do realize the irony of complaining about hard work on an
island. Either way my email filters are much more robust now.

Today was a vey rough day of snorkeling and relaxing at Lameshur Bay beach. At this point our whole group has gone native and converted to island time. Even the beach is tiring.

Luckily we had our trusty Jeep Patriot to navigate the washed out dirt roads. I have to say that I wasn’t really a big fan of the Patriot at first, it’s boxy, tiny on the inside, and sucks gas, but today it earned it’s keep on the hilly roads on St John.
We also stopped off at Woody’s afterward and had some great fried grouper. Next I need to get a speargun to start catching my own dinner.Very rough.

While the DJ from the Offshore bar rocked it with a sick set of
electronic music we enjoyed the view…

The Rising Sun spotted in port in St. Thomas, it makes the others huge yachts look like toys.

After being on the island of St. Thomas for about three weeks I’ve
determined that I heart KMart. Why would I enjoy a low rate
department store so much? It’s the only place on the island where you
can pretend you’re back in civilization, if only for a few minutes.
While there are the normal upscale tourist diamond, jewelry, and
clothing shops, that’s really about all that’s available for shopping
except for KMart. Need shorts? sandals or any other beach neccesity?
KMart. They even have a bake sale out front most times.As an aside so far the only sunscreen I’ve found is ‘Panama Jack’
ehich only comes in a spray can that spits out dubious sunscreen at 10
degrees below zero.