点评:I'm pretty sure this place was better than average, but I'm just rating my experience for the day. We we were hot and parched by the time we reached here after doing Trunk snorkeling for about 2 hrs then the little ruins trail across the street, so as we started running low on water we were happy there was an air conditioned gift shop will gallon jugs of water we all split between us and downed most of it pretty quickly. There were also some shaded picnic tables nearby. I think I tweaked my ankle coming off the taxi so I was limping most of the time at this beach. Thankfully, it later resolved.
I don't even know if I took a picture of it, but I do recall it being pretty, long and wide as described. The water was pretty, but I don't think as pretty as Trunk. Our intention was to snorkel there, but we were tired and considering I read the better snorkeling if any, would be by the cay, I didn't at the time feel like swimming out that fat after choppy waters at Trunk and wind gusts even stronger at Cinnamon to the point of blasting and bring your skin ---I think 25-30 mph exfoiliations you never wanted.
One of the biggest issues that is no fault of the beach itself, but that made it not a great experience was an obnoxious family near us on the beach and water. Who encourages their kids to be mean to animals? I'm not some big animal lover type per se--ok maybe a bit, but not huge, however be kind to people and animals and teach your kids to do the same. Everyone else could have had a magical moment seeing a deer on a beach. How often do you get to see that? Unfortunately, a I guess dad or perhaps drunken uncle was repeatedly encouraging his kid to chase the deer and all we saw was fear in its eyes, heard the dad kept going and the maybe 5-7yo kid laughing at scaring and chasing the deer. One of my kids talked about how sad that made him and I imagine the rest of my family felt the same way. Apparently, that was not enough for this lovely family, they were in the water near us with this same man and maybe someone else in the family taunting the seagulls by pretending to throw them food when it was really sand. I don't like seagulls after a bad experience and didn't want us getting hurt by accident if the seagulls got pissed off at this well deserving family (don't blame the kid as he's doing what he's taught by an adult) nor did I want me or my family subjected to their loudness and poor behavior so I moved everyone away from them.
At that point, we were all kind of done until I caught a glimpse of what I think is Little Cinnamon Beach that I recalled might have a little plane wreck to snorkel if we could find the trail. I limped down there to see if it was any calmer waters and to find this so called trail and never saw it, so we just left and went to our next beach.
I'm sure it is probably a nice beach and area, but it wasn't for us that day based on multiple not so great experiences. It seemed like a rowdier crowd in general vs any of the many beaches we visited while in the USVI. If I were in the area again, I'd maybe give it another try and hope for better water and public behavior conditions. I loved that at least the gift shop had ac and water, but the washing off facilities were I think broken or not as good as Trunk.
翻译:我敢肯定这家店的水平高于一般水平,不过我这里只是评价当天我的亲身体验而已。我们在进行了大约两小时的Trunk浮潜,又走了街对面那段小遗迹步道后,到达这里时已经热得不行、口渴难耐。这时我们的水也快喝完了,幸好附近有一家带空调的礼品店,里面有大桶瓶装水——我们几个人一起分享,很快就喝掉了大半。附近还有一些有阴凉的野餐桌可供使用。我觉得从出租车上下来时扭到脚踝了,所以在海滩上大部分时间都一瘸一拐的。好在后来伤势就好转了。
我甚至不记得有没有拍下照片,但我记得正如描述所说,那片海滩确实很漂亮,又长又宽。海水也很美,不过我觉得不如Trunk海滩那么漂亮。我们本打算在那里浮潜,但当时已经很累了;再说了,我听说要是想体验更好的浮潜体验的话,还是去小岛那边更合适。当时,在经历了Trunk海滩上波涛汹涌的海面,以及Cinnamon海滩上强到几乎能把人吹得皮肤剥落的阵风之后,我实在提不起劲去游泳——我觉得那些阵风时速大概有25到30英里,简直会把皮肤都吹掉。
有个问题其实并非海滩本身的过错,但却严重影响了我们的体验:就是我们附近有一户讨厌至极的家庭。他们居然还鼓励自己的孩子去欺负动物。其实我算不上什么狂热的动物爱好者——好吧,也许有点吧。虽然规模不算大,但请善待人类与动物,也要教导你的孩子这么做。其他人本可以享受到在海滩上看到鹿的奇妙时刻——这种场景可不多见啊!可惜的是,我猜是个父亲,或者喝醉了的叔叔,不断怂恿自己的孩子去追赶那只鹿。我们只看到鹿眼中充满恐惧;而那个大概5到7岁的孩子则因为吓到了鹿、成功追赶上了它而哈哈大笑。我的一个孩子说这让他感到很难过,我想家里的其他成员也有同感。但显然这对和善的一家人来说还不够——他们和那个男人,或许还有家里的其他人,就在我们附近的水里,假装往海鸥身上扔食物,其实扔的却是沙子,以此来戏弄那些海鸥。由于有过不愉快的经历,我不太喜欢海鸥。我担心如果这些海鸥惹怒了这一值得同情的家庭,我们可能会不小心受到伤害(可别怪那个孩子,他只是在照着大人的指示行事罢了)。我也不希望我自己或家人受到它们嘈杂的叫声以及恶劣行为的困扰,所以我把所有人都带离了那里。
就在那时,我们原本都打算打道回府了,直到我瞥见一处我觉得可能是“小肉桂海滩”的地方。我记得那里或许有一架失事飞机残骸,只要能找到小路就能去潜水观赏。我一瘸一拐地走到那儿,想看看那里的海水是否更平静些,也想找到所谓的那条小路,结果却什么也没找到。于是我们只好离开,前往下一个海滩。
我确信那里应该是个不错的海滩及周边区域,但那天由于经历了好几件不太愉快的事情,对我们来说实在不算理想之地。总的来说,这里的人群似乎比我们在美属维尔京群岛游览过的其他任何海滩上的人都更加喧闹。如果下次再来到这一带,我或许会再尝试一次,希望那时的海水状况和人们的行为举止能好一些。让我感到欣慰的是,至少礼品店里有空调和饮用水;不过冲洗设施似乎坏了,或者不如Trunk海滩上的设施好用。