Swimming at Trunk Bay with Kendra's New Do

Saturday we went swimming at Morningstar Beach again. I think it's a good place to get used to "real" open water swimming because it gets some decent waves. We swam the length of the beach four times total. We figure the total was anywhere between 1.3 miles and 2 miles. Who knows...

Before that, the heat was really getting to me. My hair was just refusing to stay out of my face, and the front of it was just too short to pull back easily but yet long enough to be annoying. I knew something had to be done..... So I went to Ladi Rainbow at the vendor's square in town, and this is what I look like now:







I was a little afraid of looking like your average white girl who just got off the cruise ship, but everyone at work seemed to like my new "local do" and reminded me that this is the island life and nobody cares what I choose to do with my hair. It certainly has been keeping me cooler!



Sunday we went to St. John. We went to Trunk Bay where the National Park service has an underwater snorkeling trail. This picture illustrates the route I took. Dave opted to spend the last back and forth lap taking pictures instead. (This picture isn't one of his, I found it online. It's from where most of the taxis stop for the tourists to see the view.) The loop-de-loops are swimming around the underwater trail. Swimming around the cay was tough as there were decently strong currents. It was a good workout!!! Dave bought a book about the cays of the USVI and it said the perimeter of Trunk Cay is 480km! So we must have swam about 1,500 miles total on Sunday. Or maybe the book was missing a decimal....


This last one is a picture Dave took at Trunk Bay - it's my favorite of the weekend photos. The water really was that green and the sky was equally pretty.

Wish you were here? :)