Nov. 7, 2013--Thursday:

Had to be out of the room by 10 am.  I was dying to snorkel Cowpet again, but with no drier, I didn't.   We did have breakfast at Sangria's overlooking the bay.  What a view to have with breakfast!

 Angie and I had talked about snorkeling the right side of Cowpet, but we never made it there.  So after breakfast I walked over there and checked it out.  Looked like some interesting snorkeling.

 Then I walked back.  This shows another reason why we love this beach---lots of shade, chairs, and hardly anybody there!

 One final photo of Cowpet Bay at the Elysian. 

Our flight wasn't until 2:45, so we had plenty of time to get to the airport.  We stopped at Secret Harbor again just to see it when the surf wasn't up.  The day we tried to snorkel here, it was pretty rough.  Looked pretty great today.

 The water sure doesn't take long to clear up when the surf is down.

 We had tried snorkeling on the far right side.  Too bad that day wasn't like this one!

 Then we headed on towards the airport.  This is us on our way!

 View of the runway from the gas station.

 Right next to the airport is Lindbergh Bay.  We had gone here on our one cruise when we followed Hurricane Tomas and all the other beaches were actually closed.  We were determined to go to the beach that day and this one was close to Crown Cruise Port and open.  Otherwise we probably never would have thought to check it out.  It looked even prettier today.

 There were plenty of people enjoying it today. 

 Then it was on to the airport and to return the car.  That was interesting---Ken dropped me off with the luggage, then drove around trying to find somewhere to drop the car off.  Finally someone got in the car with him and rode back to where I was.  He called someone (Budget, I hope), and closed out the rental.  Didn't get a receipt for it, though.  They certainly do car rentals strangely on St. Thomas!!!

Once in the airport I was surprised that we had to go through customs!  Being a US territory, I didn't expect that.  Good thing we had our passports with us since I had hoped to go to Virgin Gorda.  I asked if we could just use our driver's license and was told that and proof of citizenship would suffice.  Wonder what happens if you just have a driver's license and no proof of citizenship?  Is that how the lady in the McDonald's parking lot became homeless?!

Soon we were on our way.  We had a nice view of Crown Harbor from the plane.  Lindbergh bay is the bay cut off this picture to the right.

Loved the ever changing cloud formations during our 2.5 hour flight back to Miami.  Even got treated to a few fleeting rainbows.

 Even saw some islands along the way.

 I assume these were part of the Bahamas.

In Miami we had another 4 hour layover.  Then another 2.5 hours flight to St. Louis.