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I am a new G1 owner. I was hoping to get some advice on must sees in the area (St Thomas, St Lucia, Barbados, St Marteen). And also advice on photo settings/strategies for sunset, caribbean waters. I am a converted SLR and have not run that many rolls through the camera as of yet - and I don't have much experience in the tropics - any tricks?
Also, would anyone advise car rental on the islands? Or is taxi/bus transportation the best. I have driven in Mexico City and Naples - so traffic is no concern. I am renting on Puerto Rico - not sure on other islands. Thanks Shaun
 
> Shaun

Take the ferry from St. Thomas to St John. I stayed at Caneel Bay there on St John about a year and a half ago. It was beautiful.

Most of St John is a wildlife preserve--very unspoiled makes St Thomas look like a garbage jump.Also there are sugar plantation ruins all over the island that I here are cool--I only visiited one such site wich was inside the Caneel Bay resort (passed it every morning on the way to the beach). I regret that I only left the resort to go into Cruz bay for Dinner. But the resort was so beautiful I was content to just lay on the beach and snorkle for hours every day. Got a cool shot of a see turtle about 2-3 feet from my camera lens (disposable underwater--I could have reached out and touched him. Next time I'm taking better gear. If you have a good underwater camera St. John has the best snorkling of the three inslands.

Also Cruz Bay that I mentioned before is cool very quaint and the best food in the islands (try La Tapa Restarant) My wife and I followed a local jazz band from restaurant to restaurant each night--I'm a big jazz fan. They were playing some obscure stuff--the kind I like so we would just walk around town until we could here the music and just go inside. We were pleasntly surprised that all the food no matter what or were we ordered was incredible. If you can't tell I'm jelous. My wife and I have been trying to get back there every since we got off the plane. DONT MISS ST JOHN!

Have a great time! Kevin
 
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