Well it’s been a while since we added to our blog. What have been up to? Well we spent a week at the Cooper Island Beach Club (CIBC) where we were fed three meals a day and more or less rested and recovered from our last couple of months on the boat. It took us at least three days before we stopped rocking every time we looked at the tiled floors. The CIBC was a quaint little place where we had a small cottage without 110 V electricity; just 12 V like on the boat. Water was heated by solar energy and we were rationed to a fixed amount in the cistern located up the hill in the back of the cottage. We had a good time and met some interesting people who had been coming there for years.
When we left CIBC we started to look for little anchorages where the charter boats do not go. We found several and have spent the last three weeks in these little quiet bays learning how to cruise and slow down without making long passages every day. Off Peter Island we stayed at Key Cay and watched the sea turtles swim by almost every day and collected conch and had them for supper. At Virgin Gorda we stayed in two small anchorages and watched the mega yachts float by. Oh yes we did laundry as well at the Leverck Bay Resort. Necker Island, owned by Sir Richard Branson, was nearby and we dinghied over to say that we had been there, we couldn’t afford the $30,000+ a night to rent the island.
Norman Island was our next destination where we found a little
bay on the northeast side that was sheltered from the wind. We met Elaine and Derek from Chester NS who had the same boat as us and we had a number of nice evenings with them. We will most likely hook up with them again in Culebra which will be our next destination.
We just checked out of the BVI and checked into the USVI in record time, less than 5 minutes and only a single question from the US customs agent. We write this in St.Thomas Harbour as we wait for our friends Yoli and Chris from Lauderdale to join us for a long weekend in Culebra. More later.
When we left CIBC we started to look for little anchorages where the charter boats do not go. We found several and have spent the last three weeks in these little quiet bays learning how to cruise and slow down without making long passages every day. Off Peter Island we stayed at Key Cay and watched the sea turtles swim by almost every day and collected conch and had them for supper. At Virgin Gorda we stayed in two small anchorages and watched the mega yachts float by. Oh yes we did laundry as well at the Leverck Bay Resort. Necker Island, owned by Sir Richard Branson, was nearby and we dinghied over to say that we had been there, we couldn’t afford the $30,000+ a night to rent the island.
Norman Island was our next destination where we found a little
bay on the northeast side that was sheltered from the wind. We met Elaine and Derek from Chester NS who had the same boat as us and we had a number of nice evenings with them. We will most likely hook up with them again in Culebra which will be our next destination.We just checked out of the BVI and checked into the USVI in record time, less than 5 minutes and only a single question from the US customs agent. We write this in St.Thomas Harbour as we wait for our friends Yoli and Chris from Lauderdale to join us for a long weekend in Culebra. More later.
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