St. John Trip Report Day 6: Miss Lucy's, Lameshur Bay and a storm

[dreamshark]

Detailed report here

Description of Creolla
Days 1 & 2
Day3 - into the water
Day3 - afternoon
Day 4 - snorkel cruise
Day 5 - Fourth of July
Day 6 - Miss Lucy's
Day 7 - Perfect beach day
Day 8 - Last Full Day
Heading Home

We start the day at Miss Lucy's famous Sunday Jazz Brunch This is probably the best restaurant in Coral Bay. According to Frommer's: "For the broadest array of island cuisine, nobody does it better than Miss Lucy. Her food is the way it used to taste in the Caribbean long before anyone ever heard of upscale resorts. Before becoming the island's most famous female chef, Miss Lucy was a big hit with tourists as St. John's first female taxi driver." Miss Lucy passed away last year at the age of 91, but fortunately her restaurant carries on. That giant tree on the right is where the outdoor tables are situated.

	Richard at Miss Lucy's Sunday Brunch - Coral Bay 7/5/2009 This event is standing room only during high season, but in July you can get one of the coveted outside tables in the shade just by showing up at 10am. One of the big pluses of off-season travel.
	Miss Lucy's Jazz Brunch - Coral Bay 7/5/2009 Cool jazz, very laid back. It was also very low volume, so we were glad to be sitting relatively close. That guy on the right played about six different instruments in the course of an hour, and played them all well.
	Miss Lucy's Sunday Brunch - Coral Bay 7/5/2009 The view from our table under the big tree. Ahhh. The food was pretty decent too, but that's not the real reason you come here.
	Miss Lucy's shoreline A closer view of shoreline by the restaurant. Geographically, the south side of Coral Bay is not the most inviting part of the island.
	Little Lameshur Bay - ruins on west end of beach From Miss Lucy's it's only another mile or two to the southeast beaches. We drove past Salt Pond Bay this time to a much nicer beach nearby, which you can drive right up to. The road requires 4-wheel drive, but pretty much all the rental vehicles on St. John are jeeps anyway so that's not a problem. Beach entrance was still a bit rocky for Richard's taste, but we had a good snorkel once we got into the water.
	Storm at Creolla - July 5, 2009 Back at Creolla Villa we were treated to a dramatic thunderstorm sweeping in from Coral Bay to the east and through the valley to our right. It rained fairly hard on our mountain top, but there was no wind to speak of so we could sit in the gazebo and watch the whole thing.
	rain on the barbeque Coral Bay disappears completely as we are enveloped in clouds and rain thunders down on the deck. This is all good, of course, as it keeps the cisterns full. Did I mention that these villas get all their water from rainwater collected by an elaborate system of gutters and pipes and filtered into cisterns under the house?
	The storm passes I had to shoo Richard out of the hot tub when the storm started. Somehow, sitting in a pool of water on a mountain top didn't seem like the safest way to watch a thunderstorm. But now the storm has passed.

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Cool photos! This looks like you had a very memorable vacation.

[quility.livejournal.com]

I've very much enjoyed your record of your vacation. It was a fun to live vicariously. :)