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There’s a St. Croix Beach No One Tells You About, With a Mangrove Tunnel, Great Snorkeling, and Postcard-Perfect Sand

Tucked just east of The Buccaneer on St. Croix’s northeastern shore, Shoys Beach hides a soft, crescent-shaped stretch of white sand behind a gated entrance and a shaded mangrove tunnel, with calm water for swimming and a fringing reef for snorkeling. There is a beach on St. Croix that you have to earn, and that is exactly why it stays so quiet. Shoys Beach sits just east of The Buccaneer on the island’s northeastern shore, hidden behind a residential gate and a short, shaded tunnel of sea grape and mangrove. Step out the far end of that tunnel and the payoff arrives all at once. A near-...