BVIs Part II

Still in North Sound we spent a night on a Saba Rock  mooring  and visited  Saba Rock, an eight room resort, restaurant, and bar on a rock between Virgin Gorda and Prickly Pear Island.  Happy hour is a must and here Markus fed fish to the Tarpon off the dock and was almost dragged into the water. 

Markus feeding the Tarpon

Annette becomes a proficient Conch Blower

These are some big Tarpon. Saba Rock now has three Toucans in residence which adds to the color and flavor of the place.  It was originally an old wooden bar and dive shop but when the original owner turned 86 he sold to the present people and they have taken the “Rock” to another level. While on the mooring and close we visited Bitter End Yacht Club Resort.  Bitter End Yacht Club is a resort at the end of Virgin Gorda North Sound with beautiful well-kept beaches and villas with shops, restaurants, bars, and water sports. It is all open and spread out on the beach.

Bitter End Yacht Club

We Save the Conch

 In fact at one beach a lot of small conch had washed ashore so we picked them up and put them back in the water. We also visited Scrub Island resort which is a beautiful new stone resort with restaurant, bar and pool with a swim up bar and water slide. It is gorgeous, and they let sailors tie up their dinghies and buy drinks, use the pool and hot tub, and eat at the restaurant.

Leslie slides down at Scrub Key Resort

Mariana Cay

 Scrub Island is next to Marina Cay, which also has a resort with bar and restaurant which was bought and inhabited by an American couple back in the late 30s and early 40s. There is a movie out about it staring Sidney Portiere, his first movie, called Virgin Island. 

Mariana Cay Part of the origional house

Indians Swim through

Markus comes thorugh the swim through

Norman Cay

 Of course we also sailed to the Indians to snorkel, and then to Norman Island for the night and a visit to the Wille T. The Wille T is a bar and restaurant on a boat that is known for wild parties. We also hiked up to Spyglass Hill which is where the pirates used to stand watch for other ships while their own was safely hidden in the bight, kind of a bay, in Norman Island, and we also snorkeled the caves where in the 70s a real pirate chest was found. We then headed back to Cooper to spend a night .

Sunset at Coopers Island

 The trip ended all too soon back at Trellis Bay for the full moon festival. It’s a great night with food and lighting of great steel balls and statues, and entertainment of music and the Jumbies, people on tall stilts.

Leslie at the start of Full Moon Festival

Fire statue

 The last day we went into Road Town to look at Catamarans that they might be interested in purchasing and learning to sail and putting into charter. We looked at a couple of Lagoons and another

Leslie with a Jumbie

catamaran and finished with lunch at Pusser’s, makers of rum. It was a fun time to share cruising with them.  They left with lots of experiences to think about and how it might fit into their vision of a future.  Much of the bar hopping was predicated by a book we bought and one we gave to them called the Drinking Man’s Guide to the BVI. With the book in hand we set off for Cane Garden Bay, a mile long beach with one bar after another.

Pusser's Rum Bar