Anegada Reef Hotel

... and breeze. <br><br>The pool deck and grounds are lovely, professionally landscaped and once again of 5 star hotel quality. One great design feature of the grounds is that the pool can be closed off from the decks and house by a gate. This was a primary concern of ours as we had a 2 year old in tow. We found many of the Villa&#8217;s on the island had non-childproofed decks and pool areas. Elm Villa is the exception. The ...

Through most of our stay, our decision to go to this beach or that island was made in the moment, but a trek out to Virgin Gorda required a little planning. The ferry only sailed twice a week from Red Hook and left at 8:00 am, generally the time we were just stirring. The nearly three hour journey was so incredibly worth it though. It was lovely sailing past the islands of St. John, Tortola, and countless smaller cayes, some of which were incredibly steep ...

After 3 weeks at the Rudwell's holiday cottage in Florida and glorious respite from being on the road, we headed towards the Virgin Islands (catching up with family friends in Ft Lauderdale along the way). We met up with my Dad and Lulu who we hadn't seen since we crossed the Atlantic, for now what seems many moons ago (although it was only 6 months previous). Lulu appeared to remember us as we were greeted with a thousand licks and ...

... to answer back to that kind of statement though, since I've never been to South Africa and Letty probably has. Not that I'd ever imagine she was right, but she does have more experience than me. Franco is the only other not-dutch citizen on board. He is rather dumpy, has grey hair his walk reminds me of the yellow guy in sin city. This is accented in the morning as he sleeps in speedos. He is loud ...

... Cuba. Nous aurions bien aimé faire un tour vers les Bahamas mais le temps fil et nous devons penser à la saison des ouragans qui approche. Alors ce sera pour une autre fois. À Cuba, on planifie laisser le bateau en marina pour quelques jours et partir visiter en voiture. Après deux à trois semaines, nous partirons vers les Îles Caymens... le paradis de la plongée! Nous y resterons environ deux ...

... gate of the Baths park, we were instructed that there were two different trails that would bring us to two different beaches. One trail being further away while another one, closer. Our adventurous side voted for the furthest trail. <br><br>Therefore, off we went, with bathing suits under our clothes, down the marked small uneven rocky trail that had a variety of cactuses and trees as surroundings. As we made our way around several ...

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 the bloody huge, all weaving and crossing from one point to the next. It's the charter boat capital of the Caribbean and with the choices of places to sail, swim and dive here we can understand why. Our favourite ...

... rolly through the narrow passage. After the passage, we had a brief sail to Monkey Point, where we wanted to snorkel. We were quite fortunate that a boat was pulling away from a mooring just as we arrived (as indeed was true for the next four sailboats that appeared.) We moored, then Paul and all three kids snorkeled to shore. <br><br>They said the snorkeling was amazing along the walls of Monkey Point -- one swam through a very dense school of silver fish. Sometimes, it was so dense ...

... get all the sails right and started sailing for The Indians, which are big pinnacle rocks sticking out of the water that go down around 60ft or so, and are covered with coral. I guess I never realized before that sailing takes so long! We could see the Indians when we started sailing, but at around 5mph we didn't get there quickly! It was fun sitting on deck watching them slowly come closer, though. I was a little 'off' all ...

... but the boat still had work todo empting the oils sump etc etc etc. We still left for dinner a little later than planned. on arrival at cane garden bay the bars and restuarnt we had been recommend were shut :-( but we did find a great place on the beach were we had sex on the beach ( for those of you who are concerned i am talking about the cocktail what did you think?) Next day left to investigate The Islands