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Waterlemon Cay is a small cay surrounded by a fringing reef located in Leinster Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands.It is named after the water lemon.. The cay is surrounded by a fringing reef, and is considered to be one of the best snorkeling spots on the island. [1]
Coral Bay, Saint John; map from 1720 Map of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Saint John (Danish: Sankt Jan; Spanish: San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Virgin Islands National Park encompasses 14,737 acres (5,964 ha; 23 sq mi) of land and ocean. The park covers almost 60 percent of St. John Island, adjacent ocean, and almost all of Hassel Island. The main features are coral reefs, which almost completely surround the park, and the ocean waters, tropical forests and beaches.
Trunk Bay. Trunk Bay is a body of water and a beach on St. John in the United States Virgin Islands.Trunk Bay is part of the Virgin Islands National Park. [1] Trunk Bay is named for the Leatherback turtle, which is endemic to the USVI and are locally known as trunks. [2]
The shallow, clear water and the short distance to Cinnamon Cay (a small, low-elevation, sandy island) make Cinnamon Bay excellent for snorkeling. It is adjacent to the historic colonial Danish Cinnamon Bay Plantation , an open-air museum of the sugar production in the Danish West Indies .
Leinster Bay is a bay and former sugar cane plantation on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is uninhabited and part of Virgin Islands National Park. Visitors can park at Annaberg and hike the Leinster Bay trail to access the bay, which is a popular snorkeling spot. Waterlemon Cay is a small cay in Leinster Bay ...
The coral reefs of the U.S. Virgin Islands suffered severely from coral bleaching in 2005, which led to a 60% decline in coral activity. The USGS began extensive research in the area and scientists discovered previously unknown coral ecosystems at the submerged stems of mangrove trees in the Hurricane Hole area of the National Monument.
Gibney Beach in 1998. Gibney Beach, or Oppenheimer Beach, is a beach on Hawksnest Bay on northern Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands.The beach's names originate from Nancy Flagg Gibney and J. Robert Oppenheimer and their families, the owners of the beach in the mid-20th century.