Ok, so I have finally gone through all 600+ photos and put some of them together in a slide show. No easy task mind you. So, I hope you enjoy those, but first, to tell you a little about our trip.
Basically you spend 7 days sailing around the BVI to whatever islands you feel you should visit and do what you want to do while letting waves rock you to sleep at night. You grill off the back of the boat for your meals and you're salty pretty much all the time.
Places we went included: Cane Garden Bay, Monkey Point, Peter Island, Norman Island, Virgin Gorda, The Indians, Salt Island, Marina Cay, Soper's Hole , Sandy Cay, and Sandy Spit
Some of the highlights in a little more detail:
Scott snorkeling with dolphins-
Our first night on the boat in Soper's Hole Scott decided he wanted to do some snorkeling while we were making dinner. No one else wanted to come, becuase there isn't anything to see by the mooring balls (where you tie up for the night). Well, he showed us. Unexpectedly a school of dolphins started swimming around our boat and Scott was right in the middle of them. They got as close as about 4 ft. away. Too Cool!
Snorkeling the Wreck of the Rhone-
The wreck of the Rhoan is a very shallow ship wreck (in 80 ft of water and less) that you can snorkel and see with amazing visability. It was a mail ship that sunk just off the coast of Salt Island. Those pictures aren't included because they are on the underwater camera and those haven't been developed. But we'll post them. The brief story of the Rhone if you want to read it, skip it if you don't.
On October 29, 1867, the 310 foot Royal Mail Steamship "Rhone" was anchored off Dead Main's Bay on Peter Island, in the British Virgin Islands. It was on its way to South America when the "Great Queen Mother" of all storms closed in on them, their anchor dragged and eventually broke.The crew and captain tried to ride out the storm by heading out to sea, but the storm came on too quickly. Before the crew and captain were able to take control of the ship the R.M.S. Rhone foundered and crashed against Black Point Rock in the worst storm ever recorded in the area.The cold water flooded the boilers. One boiler exploded and ripped the Rhone open, it began to sink. Anywhere from 120 to 173 passengers and crew were killed either by the explosion, by drowning or by sharks. Captain Robert F. Wooley went down with his ship. Only 24 lived to describe the horrific tale of that night. Villagers from Salt Island were only able to recover eight of the bodies from the wreckage, and they were each given a proper Christian burial on the Island.
Snorkeling the Caves at Treasure Point, Norman Island
Basically these are caves where several years back (like a lot of years back) some treasure was actually discovered. What would be considered millions today. It has some great snorkeling, and it is kind of eerie snorkeling way back in the caves. The bird calls echo off the cliffs surrounding the area and the moss that hangs in front of the caves complete the scene. They actually filmed part of Treasure Island there.
Snorkeling the Indians
The Indians are just a collection of rocks that jutt out of the ocean just off the point of some island. It was the most fantastic snorkeling I've ever done and was loaded with tons of fish and colorful coral. Underwater photos of that to come later as well.
Exploring the Baths at Virgin Gorda
Basically when you put gorgeous beach, gigantic boulders, and lots of climbing and exploring together, what can be better? There are lots of pictures of this part because it was one of our favorites.
Marina Cay (pronounced key)
Marina Cay is a small island with an awesome story. Basically two people (they were 24 and 28 at the time) bought the island for $60 and made it their home. Using a 13 foot sailboat they got everything they needed and built a house on the island and lived there for 3 years. The house still stands and you can tour it. The man was an author and wrote a book about their time there complete with all of their hillarious stories (who knew a barracuda could fart?!?) I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a quick read that is clever and funny and best of all TRUE! It's Two on the Isle by Robb White.
I think that's enough details, here are the pictures! I'll post the video tomorrow because it's late and our internet is being super slow.
9 comments:
Oh to go sailing! What a fun trip and great pictures. We can't wait to see the underwater ones too! Have fun this weekend!!
what an awesome vacation!! I wanna go sailing now!
Absolutely amazing. Even though you didn't find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow you guys are very lucky. What a fun trip. Beautiful scenery. Swimming with dolphins must of been so neat. I didn't realize your parents had went too, fun fun fun.
..and I love the "Two butts in paradise" picture on the side. So funny.
Question: What made you guys decide to take this trip? Fun with family and friends I'm guessing. I agree with Amber, you guys are very lucky to have taken this trip, pre-children. I can only relate to this because of my trips to DisneyWorld. (The adventure, the snorkeling) Sailing has always been a dream of mine, I used to subscribe to Islands Magazine and read obsessively, I was a wannabe surfergirl in high school. Ahhh! Miss those days!
Ok enough! I am so dang jealous! The pictures are gorgeous! How fun!
That is really neat Paige-I agree with Emily-we are ALL jealous! :) You have great, fun parents. Scott is lucky to have you!
Great pics of your sailing adventure .... Are you guys going to be OK we see GUSTAV is headed your way!!
My thoughts about each picture are pretty much the same: "That's not fair." "That's not fair." "That's really not fair." Seriously, the sand, water, sunsets,rocks are fantastic. Nature's DisneyWorld.
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