{"id":481,"date":"2008-03-03T23:12:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-03-04T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:14:20","slug":"maho-bay-st-john-usvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Maho Bay &#8211; St John USVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Stone # 1 &#8211; Maho Bay Eco-resort, Maho Bay, St John USVI.<\/p>\n<p>This is most beautiful place I&#8217;ve ever been in my life.  St John is<br \/>\nmostly undeveloped, a large portion of it being a National<br \/>\nPark.  Even when the island is booked to capacity, you have large<br \/>\nexpanses of pristine white beach all to yourself, especially if<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re willing to walk, drive, or catch a cab to some of the more<br \/>\nremote beaches.    I spent a week here with my family and three other<br \/>\nfamilies from the Huntington\/Richmond area. We stayed in a cabins<br \/>\n(more like canvas-covered tree-houses) just up the hill from Little<br \/>\nMaho Bay.  There were no bugs to speak of, lots of lizards, and huge<br \/>\nterrestrial hermit crabs that the staff referred to as &#8220;the clean-up<br \/>\ncrew&#8221;.  The hermit crabs apparently eat anything, and seem to be the<br \/>\ndominant life form on the island.  The temperature ranged from 72 to<br \/>\n85F every day (and night).  The water was turquoise blue, and filled<br \/>\nwith technicolor fishes and cool coral formations.  The dining room<br \/>\nat Maho Bay Resort overlooks Little Maho Bay (Big Maho Bay is around<br \/>\nthe corner to the left).  I&#8217;ve attached a photo taken from the bar<br \/>\n(during one of the rare daytime rain showers), looking through the<br \/>\ndining room, toward Little Maho.  This faces the sunset, which makes<br \/>\nfor a pretty special dinner experience (the food was fabulous,<br \/>\ntoo).  A second photo, taken from the same spot, but facing 90<br \/>\ndegrees to the left, shows some of the massive collection of conch<br \/>\nshells that guests have left up in the rafters of the bar over the<br \/>\nyears (probably in exchange for free drinks).  If you look where the<br \/>\nrafters meet the post, you will spot a familiar name.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"293682a.jpg\" id=\"image479\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/293682a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2936915.jpg\" id=\"image488\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2936915.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Stone # 1 &#8211; Maho Bay Eco-resort, Maho Bay, St John USVI. This is most beautiful place I&#8217;ve ever been in my life. St John is mostly undeveloped, a large portion of it being a National Park. Even when the island is booked to capacity, you have large expanses of pristine white beach all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":18.3585644,"longitude":-64.7473602,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}