After great snorkeling at The Ledges and Stragglers, we moved on to Buck Island for one last snorkel before settling in for the evening near our St Thomas drop-off spot. We’re so sad that we’ll be leaving tomorrow.

Buck Island is a bird sanctuary, which is very good for birds. But, there wasn’t much good snorkeling. There is a wreck there. The thing is, unless a wreck has a lot of coral growing on it, it’s just not that interesting to us. But, as usual, we did get some pictures while snorkeling.

We did see some unusual fish that we hadn’t seen before.

This is a stunning Parrotfish with such pretty colors! I believe it is a Redband Parrotfish.

Then there was this fish…the Scrawled Filefish. It is so named because it looks like someone used a pen to mark it up. The latin name is Aluterus scriptus, where scriptus means written. Neat!

The wreck in this cove was not very interesting, and it was far down in depth. This is the best picture to give you an idea. Although, there were also lots of other parts of the boat spewed all around.

We saw a turtle swimming around the wreck. It was really hard to get good pics since he was so far down from us, but this one is okay, so you can at least see it. He was down there a long time. We never saw him coming up for air.

We hadn’t seen this pretty blue fish with stripes before – it’s an Atlantic Blue Tang.

We have seen this Spanish Hogfish before, but I liked this picture.

Way down on the bottom we saw this shell. Not sure if it was abandoned or if something was living in it.

We do see these Blue Tangs schooling pretty much everywhere we go. This time, we got a picture of them cleaning stuff off the boat’s propellers. They did tend to do this a lot.

After snorkeling, Casey made us yummy seared Ahi Tuna salad for lunch. Mmmmm….

After lunch, we moved the boat over to a harbor at St Thomas. It was just a waiting spot that was about 5 minutes from where we needed to be dropped off for pickup to get to the airport tomorrow morning.

On our way to that harbor, we saw the Icon of The Seas – it’s the largest cruise ship in the world! And it looked HUGE!!! 😮 It holds a max of 7600 passengers and has 2350 crew members. Holy Cow! It is impossible to show how gigantic this boat looked as it cruised on by.

Finally, here is where we anchored for the night. There were a lot of other boats all around us, probably waiting to leave the next day, just like us. Regardless, it was very pretty.

Our last dinner aboard was awesome – delicious lamb chops. It is interesting how the presentation of the food just makes it look better. If we were serving this, there would be a pile of chops next to a pile of potato and another pile of veggies. It all tastes the same, but it sure looks nice when it’s served this way.

Finally, it’s our last day on the Koru. How sad!

Breakfast was great, with egg wraps and a beautiful fruit plate.

Unfortunately, it was then time to say goodbye to the Koru and Joran & Casey. Joran took us to the dock on the dinghy. Here is our last view of Koru as we left…

Most of St Thomas is built up with houses, like this…

Remember the huge Icon Of The Seas? Here is a port with two Carnival ships docked. Can you imagine visiting an island when those thousands of passengers got off multiple cruise ships!?!?! Sounds awful.

Joran dropped us off at the same marina where he picked us up. The car driver was waiting, and he whisked us off to the airport. The plane to our connecting flight in San Juan, Puerto Rico was the same small tin can as we had on the way out.

So ends our fabulous 10 nights aboard the Koru. We had a wonderful time!

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