Nov. 2, 2013--Sat:

We had hoped to go to St. John's today, too, but again put it off because of the weather.  We've seen very little sun the last 3 days and better weather keeps getting put off another day or 2.  So, we stuck around our side of the island again. 

We had read that Secret Harbor (about a mile down the road from us) was suppose to be really good for snorkeling, too, so we decided to find it and give it a try.  Looked like it had potential!

 We decided to head to the right where the rocks were.

 We even had a brief bit of blue skies.

Although this doesn't show it, the water was really churned up and pretty rough.

 With such poor visibility underwater, we decided to get out.

 Making our way back.

 For some reason we thought Blue Beard's might be better, so we headed there.  That was a mistake.  It was really churning there.  So I decided it was a good time to take a picture of our "intermediate" bait and switch rental car.

Also decided our USVI license plate was worthy of a picture.  They have a cool design.

Back to the Elysian we went.   More rain, more clouds.

 Still smiling, though.

 Angie and I took off to find our octopus buddy and annoy him some more.

 Also hung around the rocky area and said hi to the resident squirrel fish.

 and Cardinal fish

 We had another bite to eat at the casual Sangria's restaurant.  Again it was very good, although service was a bit grumpy today.  Upon leaving the restaurant I got a kick out of the rain line on the palm trees.  I guess it should have been easy to figure out why the surf was coming in hard from the east!

 Another picture of our beach as we headed to the pool.   I tried to get as much pool time in as I could.  It was especially nice when they didn't have the hot tub at 1,000,000 degrees!

I don't remember what we did Sat. night.  Probably ate at Molly Malone's in Red Hook that night.  Molly Malone's was rather disappointing.  My corned beef and cabbage was good, but it was advertised to come with scones.  After we had eaten, we asked about the scones and were told they ran out.   After the fact, the waitress offered us bread, but we were done eating then and I was really looking forward to the scone for dessert.   We probably had the worst service here of any place we went to---it was also the most expensive place.