Ranger: Read our minds, not our signs
So you can’t park at Maho Bay? Or, you can, but only in the legal spots and not where there is no parking. But you wouldn’t know that because there ARE NO SIGNS. (And as you can see, there’s not a whole lot of parking anyway.) There is a Source story this week about people getting parking tickets over the weekend at Maho Bay because they were parked illegally. In response to protests, here’s what the Source quotes chief ranger Mark Marschall as saying: “We’re trying to avoid having signs.” Well that’s helpful! If you want to read it, double park your browser here.
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January 25th, 2007 07:36
This whole parking debacle makes about as much sense as ending A Christmas Carol with “and you see, gentle readers, Scrooge was redeemed because, all along, he was a giant talking squirrel.”
January 25th, 2007 08:37
This is so typical of the way things happen down there, and is one of the reasons I find myself laughing when I’m there. The “regular” order of things just doesn’t exist in any way that’s familiar to folks like me from the U.S. While I sympathize with the frustration of getting a ticket at Maho, does anyone really believe that there is the slightest chance of the Rangers ever being organized enough to actually execute a sustained enforcement campaign?
January 25th, 2007 10:06
Where are the legal spots? Don’t you basically go down the road a little bit from the picture and drive into a tree on the side of the road? When the tree stops you, you’re parked.
At least that’s what we did. Then, you run like hell to get away from the absolutely evil bugs.
Saw a flock(?) of squids when snorkeling there. Not very colorful, but cool in its own way
January 25th, 2007 12:06
Hey me, Thats how I did it too!
January 25th, 2007 19:43
It’s part of the character and fun of St. John. Don’t make them put up more signs.
January 25th, 2007 19:45
Funny thing happened when we went to Maho for the first time. We were on our way back from Coral Bay and we were coming back on the Northshore rd. when we came up such a beautiful beach we HAD to stop. And stop we did when we backed in to our spot and a tree hit us in our rear bumper!
January 25th, 2007 20:53
ok maho beach one of my favorite…when helping build a villa on island and living out of the suzuki on a four day work visit which happened oftened…this time i stopped at maho looking over the water to sleep for the night..the tire treads lack of would not me back up and i was stuck..so onto the beach i went…now worse stuck on the beach wait tillmorning for the rangers to find me ..no palm branches and alot of digging and more digging and more palm branches ..maho upper pavilon i made it..thank god they dont give tickets at night
January 26th, 2007 07:56
Just curious..how much is the parking ticket? If it isn’t too expensive consider it a fee for parking. It certainly would be worth it to hang out on this special little beach!