Travel Tips

Send Photo to a Friend

The Baths, Virgin Gorda

Jean negotiating a walkway. Picture by Joan Lee

Virgin Gorda's famous attraction. Huge rocks helter skelter form cave like grottoes. The trail scrambles over rocks, through pools of ocean water, under rock arches, over wooden walkways illuminated by slanting rays of sunshine through crevices.

Send Photo to a Friend

Storm clouds at sunset

The calm before the night storm. Colors change minute by minute, cloud shapes turn this way and that. No need for TV.

Send Photo to a Friend

Small nurse shark

Bob Davis, our dive instructer, caught the nurse shark. After petting the rough skin and looking into the shark's eyes, we released the disoriented shark that swam right into Jim's crotch. Both were quite surprised.

Send Photo to a Friend

Sponges and Corals

Scuba and snorkeling sites abound in the BVI's. Diving gets intimate with undersea landscapes and tropical fish. Floating in the swells with the fish is a great way to appreciate a foreign environment.

Send Photo to a Friend

Wreck of the Rhone Dive site

BVI's provide anchor balls at popular dive sites to miminize impact on the fragile environment.

This wreck is situated on the lee side of Salt Island, spread out over a couple of acres, parts of the wreck are shallow enough so that they can be enjoyed by snorkelers and scuba divers at the same time. The Royal Mail Steam Ship Rhone, a 310-foot long iron-hulled steam-sailor, was built in Southampton, England in 1865 and was sunk by a hurricane a mere two years later on October 29th, 1867.

Send Photo to a Friend

A fish, a fish!

Jean has found a fish! Photo by Joan Lee

Fish can be found swimming about. A totally unearthy beautiful experience.

Send Photo to a Friend

Virgin Gorda desert landscape

After rock scrambling at the Baths, we hiked through dry desert landscapes past magestic cacti standing amid boulders. The distant ocean swells, cacti and changing clouds paint a picture of romance and pirates.

Send Photo to a Friend

Top of The Baths

Joan Lee enjoying the pool.

After a sweaty hike, cresting a hill we came upon Top of The Baths Restaurant. Rum drinks, food and a dip in the cool pool are just rewards. The owners invite restaurant patrons to swim in the natural rock swimming pool.

Send Photo to a Friend

Catching dinner, Captain Jim

Capt'n Jim, pursued his prey with vigor and determination. Jim Cooke, the tourist and bag holder, almost lost a lobster by not tightening the bag opening. He puched the lobster back in but suffered a puncture wound into his knuckle joint from the deadly spine above the lobsters eye. Jim felt justified and ate the lobster for dinner.

Send Photo to a Friend

Fresh lobster, yum

A custom made stainless steel (resists salt water corrosion) grill is essential for that outdoor experience. Some dive area's are nicknamed the "grocery store" because fresh seafood is abundant for the picking or catching.

Send Photo to a Friend

Gourmet meals

Part of chartering a sailboat with a cook is the exceptional meals and pampering I experienced every single day. Not only breakfast, lunch and dinner, but gourmet snacks. Even with all the scuba diving and hiking, I gained weight but enjoyed every minute of it.

Send Photo to a Friend

Daybreak

Being on the water, breezes cooled us and drove pesky mosquitoes and no-see-um's away. Each day, each different anchorage brought mesmerizing scenery, sunrises and sunsets.

Send Photo to a Friend

Sunset

Nothing to do but relax and watch the beautiful sun set. That's what a sailing cruise is all about, relaxation.