Cinnamon Bay was our first destination on the last full day we were in St. John.  It's on the wet side of the island and a popular spot for tourists.  Most of our group didn't stay long enjoying the beautiful beach though -trails around the area gave us a chance to learn about the difference between the vegetation on the wet side of the island and the dry side where VIERS was located.  There were sugar mill ruins here as well, and plenty of critters underneath rocks to try to catch, amblypygids being the most favored prize.

There was a tiny excavation site above the high tide line -looking suspiciously like a mock for placating tourists - and a small "museum" detailing some of the archaeological work on uncovering the Taino culture.  Recent finds point to this pre-Columbian culture as the makers of the Petroglyph symbols.

On the hike around the Cinnamon Bay trails, we noted that vegetation on the wet side of the island had larger leaves (more area) than the dry side, where plants had to conserve water as much as possible.  There were many orb weavers around the ruins, and we saw our first Monkey-no-climb tree (Hura crepitans), aptly named for the spikes all along its trunk.  Shortly after the hike, we headed to Cruz Bay, the center of tourism on St. John.