British Virgin Islands Sailing (BVI) - gordonsmith

British Virgin Islands Sailing (BVI)

Sailing the BVI for one glorious week! We rented a "bare boat" from Tortola Marine Management (TMM). Our ship was the "Midori". The Midori was a catamaran with four comfortable bedrooms and 4 miniscule bathrooms. Arriving late that night, we found that our luggage hadn't made it. Fortunately it came the next morning before we shoved off from land to begin this great trip. Our journey took us to Jost Van Dyke, Little Jost Van Dyke, Anegada, Virgin Gorda (no relation to me), and finally to Cooper Island. We SCUBA dove around Sandy Spit and also visited the fabulous wreck of the HMS Rhone. Great memories. This gallery focuses on our experience as tourists. For just my landscape shots without all the people, please see my BVI Landscape Page. Please enjoy the trip with us.

Three boats of differing size
Exploring the wreck of the HMS Rhone
Getting ready to explore the wreck of the HMS Rhone
The Baths at Virgin Gorda
Leverick Bay
Sunrise on Anegada
Sailing
At Sandy Spit
Foxy's Bar during daylight hours. A few articles of clothing seem to have been left behind.
Back of the ship on the dock in Tortola.

Our sea kayak was great fun on Cooper Island.
Exploring the wreck of the HMS Rhone
Getting ready to explore the wreck of the HMS Rhone
My wife on the trail in the Baths. I love how the light illuminates her.
My wife pried the camera from me to take this picture. What a mess I am.
Lobster at Loblolly Bay
Dinghy
Ashore at a diving shop on Yost Van Dyke. We arranged our SCUBA dive with this gentleman.
We needed food first, so we went grocery shopping our first morning. A huge rainstorm hit just after this photo was taken.

The whole crew and Captain
Exploring the wreck of the HMS Rhone: the bow of the ship is seen here.
Cooper Island sunset
The Baths. My wife and I enjoyed the famous Baths beach in solitude for 2.5 hours! She read while I took photos.
Most of the crew
Northern Anegada beach on Loblolly Bay
Inside the Midori

Great way to cool off.
See that long fish. That's a barracuda! This guy who happened to sail on our ship was temporarily insane to try to swim with this thing!
Exploring the wreck of the HMS Rhone
The trail at the Baths
Sometimes you do crazy things for photography. This is one of them: I got a taxi ride from Leverick Bay to the Baths at 5:30 AM so that I could be there at first light. Although we hiked down to the beach by flashlight, it's a decision I'll never regret because my wife and I enjoyed the famous Baths beach in solitude for 2.5 hours! What a great sense of discovery and wonder we had as we hiked the trail around and under boulders. The light was pretty good too. At about 9 AM, suddenly there were 200 tourists on the beach. Party over.
Leverick Bay on the north shore of Virgin Gorda
Lobster catch
This is the Bubbling Baths. Great place for a dip.
SCUBA diving at Sandy Spit
Spacious bedroom.

Our ship, the "Midori".
Me writing a few thoughts as the sun set
Exploring the wreck of the HMS Rhone
The Baths at Virgin Gorda
Leverick bay. We got more water here.
Fun-sized waves made a great roller coaster and shower simultaneously from Anegada to Virgin Gorda
When we arrived at Anegada, the overcast clouds left us and bright sunlight lit up the water like never before. We all jumped in here and swam without a swimsuit or a care in the world!
At Little Jost Van Dyke, I went ashore and shot this photo as the sun first light hit the ships.
First sunset.

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