Neptune's Treasure
Travel Blogs from Anegada
Moving Back Westward Through the BVI
... be a winner. We found good sand close in to shore and the shoreline view was fabulous with lovely palm trees and a pristine sand beach that could be one of the loveliest beaches in the BVI. This is a great spot to anchor to visit The Baths instead of using the day balls there, and is much less crowded. In addition, you can overnight at anchor here (unless the swell is high and thus imprudent), whereas the balls at The Baths are for day use only. ...
Exploring Virgin Gorda's North Sound
... masthead component which turned out at that time to be unnecessary when the final cause of that problem was found to be due to faulty wiring inside the mast. Fortunately this spare fixture was now available to replace the suspected faulty component, but this required going up the mast to accomplish, which requires a very calm anchorage. Finding such a spot became a priority….
We spent the next 10 days in the North Sound ...
Virgin Gorda
... but everyone has a vehicle, and they drive very fast on the narrow paved roads. Yes, they drive on the other side of the road, so we really had to be careful while walking - no sidewalks!
The local bands were playing long into the evening at the marina. They like to play Christmas songs here. Very enjoyable.
Sorry - pictures are hard to upload here, so maybe I can get them later. ...
Big Bamboo, a helicopter and champagne
... with the driver and obtained a lot of interesting information about Anegada.
We spent the afternoon hanging out at Big Bamboo (we had lunch and several cocktails), swimming in the crystal clear waters and just relaxing. The beach was lovely and there were hammocks scattered in the trees.
There was also a gift shop here which, of course, the ladies checked out. There was a helicopter ...
Return to North Gorda Sound
... sail came crashing down. We secured the sail and continued on with the genoa and anchored alongside Prickly Pear Island near Saba Rock and BEYC as originally intended. We had been experiencing problems with a chafe point on the halyard near the mast head and as soon as the halyard broke we both knew why. We had replaced the halyard back in December in St. Lucia after observing some fraying of it and got that done before it broke. Dave had been watching the ...