What to do now...I looked at my MapsMe and noticed we were kinda on the opposite side of the island we had not been to yet and it was like driving on a country road most of the time. It said there was a beach along the way called Hay Penny Beach or as the locals call it, Ha'Penny Beach (pronounced "Hey Penny"), also known as Manchineel Bay or Halfpenny Bay. It is located on the South Shore of St Croix and is about a mile long stretch of beach.I had read that a lot of the locals come here to swim.

Look at all the open area around here. It really didn't feel like you were anywhere near a beach.

We came to a "road" that, according to my map, was where you turned off to get to the beach. It was a dirt road and I wasn't quite sure if we were heading the right way or my map was off.

This road went by a farm with animals and I had really hoped that we weren't going down someone's driveway. But it dead ended into...the beach.

To the left, the road led to the farm entrance (I believe)

To the right was the beach area.

There was only one other family there (a father with a few kids and a few dogs).

We grabbed our things (chairs and snorkeling gear) and headed between the trees and out to the beach. It was VERY hot out so the hubby moved back under the trees to sit and Sakari and I headed out to see if there was any snorkeling here.

It was mostly rocks and a lot of sea grass. We went out quite a ways and it was still pretty shallow with not a lot to see. There were a lot of anemone's in the area.

We were out this far:

Karl decided to stay back at the beach and was walking along looking for shells.

I'm not sure what this was but it was swaying back and forth in the water. Some other type of anemone?

There wasn't a lot of fish in the area but a few small ones here and there.

We did come across a parrot fish and surgeonfish and a lot of red sea urchins.

Since it wasn't too interesting and not the type of beach you would just hang out and swim at, we decided we would just pack up and head out after awhile. I think we were only there around an hour or so.

A short video of our snorkeling:

We decided we would just head home from here for the night.