Virgin Islands British Travel Blogs

Dreadlock Holiday
Jun 20, 2007 (9 photos)

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The adventure begins.
Oct 2, 2005 (4 photos)

... boatshow and after the show and some outfitting sailed her to her new home at the Nanny Cay Marina on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. We are now at home in Annapolis preparing for a year-long cruise of the Caribbean. D-day is Oct. 15th when we ...

Tortola
Feb 20, 2007 (8 photos)

... showering and dressing, we took a tour of the ships galley and went outside and watched the ship pull into Tortola, British Virgin Islands.  We were excited about our excursion to Virgin Gorda and The Baths...but it was cancelled at the last minute ...

Tortola - The "Baths" Virgin Gorda
Feb 6, 2009 (39 photos)

Dear Blog, Welcome to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, home for sun worshippers and yachtmen alike.  The constant winds along the Sir Francis Drake Channel make it ideal for sailing conditions while the secluded beaches, incredible vistas make ...

Saint Tomas
May 14, 2005

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Fort Recovery Trip, This year 2007
Jul 24, 2007

... time to the BVI. We started off taking chartering a sailboat for a 3 day sail around the BVI, stopping at gorgeous islands such as Virgin Gorda. The baths there are a natural phenomenon!! There are enormous boulders there. I believe I  had read on ...

Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands
Nov 29, 2005 (8 photos)

Greetings from Marina Cay in the BVI! When last we wrote we were on our way out to Palominos an island off Fajardo that the El Conquistador resort uses as a beach, water sport and party venue. We picked up a mooring for the night and enjoyed being in ...

More Cruisin'
Mar 23, 2008 (5 photos)

... St. Johns with her until Friday.  Had a dollar beer at Woody's "famous" happy hour in St. Cruz.    Cleared British customs at Jost Van Dyke yesterday and got a drink [Why is the rum always gone?] at Foxy's.  No development here - ...

Lazy Days
May 8, 2008

... , Tortola, BVI We anchored out in the harbor the day everyone left.  We left the next day after lunch and arrived at Virgin Gorda a little before sunrise.  Cleared in there and went up to The Bitter End the next day.  Stayed there for two ...

leaving bvi
May 6, 2007

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Caribbean 1500
Dec 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... wife, June flew down to meet him after the passage and joined us aboard Quest for another week of island hopping in the British Virgin Islands. George and June have spent time on Tortola and Jost Van Dyke and introduced us to several locals. We enjoyed a ...

Rude town
Jul 19, 2007

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Little Britain
Jan 22, 2003

... are the major attractions to these islands, and it's not hard to see why. Hundreds of coral reefs and desert islands are just a short sail away, including Cooper Island which locals insist inspired Robert Louis Stephenson to write Treasure Island, and ...

Off to the British Virgin Islands
Mar 15, 2005 (5 photos)

5am in the morning on 15th March we set sail from St Martin for Totola in the B.V.Is. We planned to set off at 9pm the night before. However Martin our Skipper had been busy putting our new stewardess Lacy through her paces back at her flat we suspect ...

Anegada
Mar 25, 2008 (2 photos)

25/03/08, Tuesday, 23:00, Anegada, BVI Generator's okay.  Beard is annoying...but I still want to see what happens with it.  Sailed to Anegada today - what a magical place.  It's this flat, coral, sand and limestone island in the middle of ...

Beautiful One Day Perfect The Next.
Feb 5, 2009 (36 photos)

The British Virgin Islands remind us a little of the Whitsunday Islands with lots of small islands clustered around offering a wide variety of anchorages , sandy beaches and clear blue water with hundreds of yachts, from the very small, to the large, to ...

Our Own Private Aquarium
Feb 15, 2009 (18 photos)

Our time in Tortola was spent waiting for parts and repairing the worn clutch in our saildrive. After a week of waiting then repairing we found that there was also a problem with one of our propellers. Much to Tom and Pete's disgust they had to don ...

Shipmates
May 6, 2009

Now that I've gotten to know the crew a little better I thought I'd make a short report before we set sail. The captain is friendly and has a good sense of humour. He is also impatient and does not handle the language barriers on board very well. This ...

The Little Mermen !
Mar 4, 2009 (44 photos)

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Pajama party
Dec 1, 2008 (34 photos)

POLSKI: Dobra muzyka, drinki, i obowiazkowa pizama - czyli pidzam party! Co za szalona noc! Byl prawie caly moj team, niektorych kolegow w akcji nie poznalam :) A tak mi sie nie chcialo isc! O 7 rano robilam zdjecia na gangway`u, po 3,5 godzinach ...

What to know about Dominica
Mar 18, 2006

Finally back to Tortola! Dominica is much more beautiful (I think) and people are much more nicer! The only thing is that Dominica is so poor, that people will try to rip you off all the time. So it is really easy to try to get better price, ...

Leaving Tortola
Mar 15, 2006

After a heavy night drinking, we are leaving to Dominica

Secret Destination: British Virgin Islands
Dec 8, 2007 (40 photos)

I can't really say anything about our final destination, the resort where we stayed or the nature of the event we performed at due to signing a strict confidentiality agreement. However, the press does know about a major social event that happened on that ...

Carribean Secrets: British Virgin Islands
Dec 7, 2007 (10 photos)

... We arrived after a long flight from Paris in St. Maarten, one of many tropical destinations in this paradise of clustered islands. Having a four hour stopover before our onward flight to another island we hightailed it to the nearest beach to wet our toes ...

Taking A Bath
Feb 21, 2009 (33 photos)

... you find a place that has almost magical properties, we went to one such place the other day called The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda. The Baths are made up of huge granite boulders that are stacked up on each other to form a maze, filled in with ...

A port with no name?
Dec 6, 2005

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the best pastry ever
Nov 18, 2008 (126 photos)

POLSKI: Ostatni portowy dzien, potem dwa dni na morzu. Mielismy tylko 3h na zobaczenie miejsca i zrobienie zdjec. Niektorzy woleli isc spac, ale nie my! Ja i Ronnie trafilismy na cudowna cukiernie - dawno nie pilam tak dobrej kawy mrozonej i nie jadlam ...

First day on my new yacht 'Lethantia'
Jan 31, 2003

So i joined Lethantia in Gran Case, St Maarten. At that stage I would have happily done the job for free (glad the owners didn't know bout that, though) cos we got meals, free acommodation & free transport to exotic locations.     ...

Almost Tortola
Dec 5, 2005 (2 photos)

... tests and as everything looked ok I was able to return to the ship that was leaving at 1pm. It's a shame because Tortola looked really nice, and we missed the excursion to Virgin Gorda which everybody finds amazing. Well, we have an excuse to return.

I believe in fairies
Jan 29, 2008

I've wasted more than a week in the Caribbean. Tonight, while sitting at the bar, I notice something on the top shelf that I haven't seen in a very long time. I ask the bartender what it is. She doesn't know. She says it just came in today. She hands me ...