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Magens Point Resort including both the green sea turtle (tortuga
Mafalie Hotel verde) and the hawkbill turtle (tortuda de
The Westin Resort carey). When cruise ship passengers are
being shown the colorful reefs for their
Whereas the St. Croix side of this map is first time, seeing sea turtles is a huge
bilingual, with the names of the fish in thrill. Probably only the sighting of
Spanish and English this side of the map dolphins, which is much less common, is
was slightly limited for space, and I had to more exciting than seeing sea turtles. It
either eliminate a few fish, or a few words. could be argued that no island on earth has
Since I had the translation on the flip side more spectacular underwater sites than St.
of the map anyway, I chose to not Croix. The north side of St. Croix has
eliminate fish, but to show their names famous wall diving at its best. Divers start
only in English on this side of the map. in relatively shallow water reefs, but then
go out to the drop-off, which goes straight
Overall, the United States Virgin Islands down, down, down to Davy Jones’ locker,
is one of earth’s most fantastic places to thousands of feet deep, where no diver can
visit. Visit St. Thomas, St. John, St. venture. Just looking downward into the
Croix, Buck Island (both), and then you deep blue abyss is a awesome, but the
will have had the vacation of your incredible abyss view is from in front of a
lifetime. Study Franko’s Map of the U.S. wall of colorful corals, bright sponges of
Virgin Islands and you will surely find all shapes, and a myriad of tropical
yourself going there! On St. John there Caribbean reef fishes in just simply too
are gorgeous turquoise bays for easy, amazing to tell in a few words. Since this
wonderful snorkeling in such nice spots as is open water diving, pelagic species of
Hawksnest Bay, Cinnamon Bay and the fish, including the likes of large jacks,
most famous Trunk Bay. These are all marlin and sharks may cruise by. Every
within St. John’s Virgin Islands National diver loves to see a huge and graceful
Park. Then there are St. Thomas’ equally manta ray, and there are eagle rays as well.
beautiful beaches, such as Magens Bay, Once in a great while even a whale shark
which is often rated one of the world’s 10 is spotted as the behemoth glides by with
most beautiful beaches. Snorkelers and his big mouth agape feeding. Hopefully,
fellow ocean lovers also enjoy Coki the fish depicted on this Virgin Islands
Beach. On St. Thomas’ south side the Franko Map will inspire the visiting diver
incredibly beautiful and busy port of or snorkeler to remember and respect this
Charlotte Amalie is the home of many place and these wonderful creatures. This
snorkeling tours for the legions of tour Franko Map shows you just where United
boats that take groups of divers and State Virgin Islands are in the Caribbean,
snorkelers out to Buck Island, where the plus helps you put into perspective the
novice snorkeler is usually treated to a geographic relationship of the main
nice view of underwater reef life, islands of St. Croix, St. John and St.
