Johnson’s Reef is a marked reef located off St. John’s north shore near Trunk Bay. It is within the V.I. National Park boundaries. We have seen people surfing on the waves that kick up when there is a northern ground swell, which are even larger if the swell has any west in it. We also know of people snorkeling the reef but it is not worth the effort to get out to it for snorkeling. I wasn’t able to get any history on the reef, but I did see an article from 2002 describing a Native Son ferry boat running aground on Johnson’s reef and another one in 2013 about a 43-foot power boat running 400 feet across the reef, damaging the elk horn coral colonies which are listed as threatened on the endangered species list. Hmmm, wonder how that happened with the very clearly marked boundaries of the reef?
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