Recently when we visited St Mary’s Island, it was an amazing experience all together. When we visited this place we found it totally charming. This time, it was our sixth trip and the same enthusiasm was there. This is situated to off coast of Maple. In Fact, it is located at 75 kms from Mangalore. You get to spend 2-2.5 hours on the island and if you want to stay for more time, you can request the same to the boatman. You are allowed to carry your own food, drinks and everything on the boat. In fact, you can even get your own tasty fish fries that are sold there. Between the times of June till September, there are no boat rides. The main reason for this is heavy monsoon that is seen in this time.

The best time to travel to this place is said to be October to May. You can enjoy the boat rides and everything. When we reached the place, we booked our stay at Paradise Island Resort and to be very straight, we had wonderful time staying there. Every arrangement was very perfect. This made the trip more awesome. We reached early morning and tried to get the first boat that was around 9 am in morning. There were almost 30 people in the journey. When you are going in boat, you will see so many columnar joints there. All this is due to initial formation of earth. There had been many movies that have been shot here in this beautiful island.

The boat in charge will help you with all details as when to come back. You can also enjoy the loading and UN loading of fish on dockyard. Although you do not have accommodation facility in St Mary’s Island but you can enjoy your accommodation at Udupi.

I would rate this place as 3.5 from 5 stars as there may be some initial issues of staying or finding a good accommodation. But the place is truly enjoyable and you will have wonderful experience.