Ferry boat

Honeymoon Beach from above

Yesterday (well, two days ago now because it's 2 A.M.) was great yet again. It was Sunday, our last day before classes started. We wanted to get off the island and do some exploring on our own. They easiest way to do that is to take a ferry to Water Island. Water Island is a very small and very rural island right of the coast of St. Thomas. This wasn't that much of an adventure since it's only about 2,000 feet from port to port, a $10 10 minute ferry ride, and a $1 5 minute Safari ride from UVI to the port. This was, however, a starting point to begin our adventures and small trips. Some of us have dreams of going to explore the BVIs, Puerto Rico, and other surrounding islands for days, weekends, or for spring break. Our trip to Water Island was a very small and very short half-day trip.

Honeymoon Beach late afternoon

We left the school after breakfast and got to the port at 11:45. The 12:00 ferry was full so we ended up taking the 12:30 one. The ferry was very short and in about ten minutes we were on Water Island headed to one of the best beaches in all of the USVI, Honeymoon Beach. We were told that it would be packed because Sunday is everyone's free day, and if people don't go to Magen's Bay (the most popular beach on St. Thomas) they go to Honeymoon Beach. I didn't find that to be the case.

Local beach bar on Honeymoon

Honeymoon was located about 5 minutes away from the port on Water Island. The beach was incredible. They had so much to do, all in this quaint and compact little beach. There was a bar, a floating bar, a restaurant, volleyball, corn hole, beach chairs, shade, that ring toss game, and a floating raft! And the coolest part - a sea turtle came and poked it's head out at us while we were on the raft!! I was so excited. I'm definitely going to take my girlfriend and family there when they come visit.


About 5:30 we got on the ferry to go back. Instead of going all the way back to UVI though, one student with a car offered to take me and a couple other kids to Kmart and the grocery store. I got a rug for my dorm room which I'm unusually happy about, some command strips to hang stuff on the walls, and some easy mac since I missed dinner at the cafeteria. It was a great day.