Fat Hog’s Bay- January 13,2011
We left Cooper Island Thursday to head to Fat Hog’s Bay, Tortola. We pulled up to a dock to re-fuel, water, provision and shower before picking Richard’s Mum, Barbara at the Beef Island Airport on Tortola.
Not the kind of place you wanted to swim, but it was good to clean up both boat and crew. We dined at Redrock restaurant at Penn’s Landing for dinner after Barbara arrived from her 5 min cab ride. We were lucky she escaped the snow in N.England and were glad to have her join us!
The Baths, Virgin Gorda- January 14, 2011
Friday morning we were happy to leave Fat Hog Bay and head to the Baths on Virgin Gorda. It is a natural wonder and Park area with park moorings since anchoring is not allowed. There were big swells so the snorkeling was not as great as the hiking in and amongst the huge rocks and caves along the waterline. The kids were amazed and thrilled at the underwater pools and tunnels! They thought this would be the perfect setting for a pirate movie.
We left the Baths and headed on to the Bitter End Yacht Club one of our old favorites from years ago. The bay was a welcome calm quiet after all the swells and winds of recent nights.
Bitter End YC- January 15, 2011
Saturday was picture perfect. We headed into the BEYC and hiked to the ocean side of Biras Creek. Back at the boat there was lots of swimming and sunning. The kids and Rich rented a hobie cat for the afternoon and had a blast just zipping around the harbor. They were fun to watch and came home with lots of tales of thrills and almost spills!
Dinner out was a lovely treat from Barbara at the Saba Rock restaurant. There were giant tarpon swimming around the base of the dock and it kept the kids very busy so we could enjoy the amazing sunset.
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| Great visit with Barbara at The Bitter End! |
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| Cool customer.... |
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| Some high speed thrills racing across Gorda Sound! |
We sailed from Virgin Gorda out North of the Dogs and Great Camanoe . Our hope was to enter a beautiful out of the way anchorage called Lee Bay at Great Camanoe and anchor, but the swells were huge and we decided to continue on through the gap of Great Camanoe and Little Camanoe back over to Cooper for Richard’s Mum to check it out.
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