The 225-yard snorkel trail in the clear, calm, warm waters of St. John's Trunk Bay, works a 10- to 30-feet-deep course across the bay. A dozen blue-and-white underwater signs mark the trail and explain what there is to see. Parrotfish, blue tangs, sergeant majors and other fish dance around the coral while rays nestle on the sandy bottom.
Join Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society and St. John's Maho Bay Camps for a week-long adventure vacation.
Overlooking the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park and Pillsbury Sound, the villa is awash in pastel colors on the inside and out, as well as gingerbread trim and gardens overflowing with bird-of-paradise, heliconia, lobster claw and hundreds of orchids.
There's good reason why so many people head to St. John for their baptism into the society of snorkelers -- it's just so darn easy to drop in here. The island's best beaches rim the north shore and, bay after bay, the waters are typically calm, warm and inviting