Snorkelling at Fourchue Island?

[jgcpalmer]

As we're looking for things to do in St Barts, one really fun excursion was a snorkelling day trip out to Fourchue Island.
We see that Jicky Marine offers this (http://www.st-barths.com/jicky-marine-service/en/rates.html) but they do it each Tuesday, and we arrive on a Tuesday and leave on the next Tuesday, so that doesn't work.
I was wondering if there's anyone else that offers this sort of thing on a different day? We can't afford to do a private charter, but if there's someone else on the island doing this sort of thing on a different day for a similar price as Jicky's, then we would be very interested.

 

[stbartshopper]

We like Yannis Marine.

http://www.yannismarine.com

Have gone over to Forchue with them and had a delightful day. We have also rented a catamaran and sailed over. I wonder if it is too far on a calm day to go over by SeaDoo from the Guanahani?

 

[NikoleRob]

Jicky will do a half day charter any day of the week that's not already booked up. We went a week ago Wednesday. You pay for the whole boat but it's just your group. Their cat is new and really nice. We enjoyed it and would recommend them.

 

[fins85258]

Karen and I sailed over for a 1/2 day trip on a Cat out of la Marine and had a great time snorkeling. The wine and cheese for the sail back hit the spot.

 

[jgcpalmer]

Thanks guys,

I think Yannis Marine is well beyond our budget (looks like a trip with them could cost more than twice our accommodations for our whole week.)

I see we could do a trip for Jicky for under 300€ for 2 of us for a whole day. I was just wondering if there was anything similar by anyone else on a different day of the week. We may just do Jicky's Columbier afternoon excusion on the Friday ($79€ per person.)

 

[fins85258]

Try this one out

http://www.st-barths.com/jicky-marine-service/en/rates.html

or this one

http://www.st-barths.com/plongee-caraibes/en/rates.html

 

[jgcpalmer]

Try this one out

http://www.st-barths.com/jicky-marine-service/en/rates.html

Yeah, my original post links to the same page. Our problem is that we arrive and leave on Tuesday, so the trip they offer won't work for us. I'm wondering if anyone else offers something similar at a similar rate on a different day.

 

[KevinS]

For what you want to do, Jicky Marine Services is the only operation of its type in that price range that I'm aware of. None of the other boat rental operations that I'm aware of offer anything even close in price.

What might work would be one of the Dive operations. See the page on this site for Plongee Caraibes. The posted rate sheet lists 2-hour, half-day, and semi-private sunset snorkeling, but doesn't say where.

https://www.sbhonline.com/St-Barts-Activities/Plongee.htm
www.plongee-caraibes.com

There are several other dive operations on the island. Ouanalao Dive in Grand Cul de Sac and La Bulle and Birdy in Gustavia come to mind.
http://www.ouanalaodive.com
http://www.labullesbh.com/
http://www.st-barth-plongee.com/

 

[jgcpalmer]

Thanks for the links Kevin. I'll check them out, and maybe send out some emails to them to see what could be done for us.