Last weekend we did a nice 7 mile loop with a few friends on St. John. We started on the L’Esperance trailhead off the island’s center line road. The hike took us by multiple sets of ruins of old sugar mills and plantations. The center point was the reef bay beach about 3 miles and 1000 ft below where we started. Snorkeled a bit and found a real cool conch (you’ll see it in the video). The hike out up the reef bay trail took us by a few more sets of ruins as well as some petroglyphs on the walls of a seasonal waterfall. These dated back thousands of years to pre-colombian times when the island was inhabited by West Indian tribes. The hike up was back to the centerline road so finishing the day with a 1000 ft vertical climb was a little exhausting. But we made it!
PS. Video is a bit longer than the others on this site but has some cool timelapses in it…