British Virgin Islands
Saba Rock - Virgin Gorda
KINDNESS comes to explore Saba Rock - Virgin Gorda BVI. Last time we were in this area, Saba Rock was still being rebuilt due to hurricane Irma. Now it is better than ever. What a great wonderfully unique place to visit and explore.
Saba Rock, Virgin Gorda
Saba Rock Resort is a really cool place. You can stay on a mooring with either Saba Rock resort to the West, or Bitter End Resort to the East, or if you prefer just anchor around the point at Biras Creek. All three options are a quick dinghy ride to the resort where you will be greeted as you arrive and someone will tie off your dinghy for you.
We chose to arrive just before 5pm when they feed the Tarpon (fish) which is quite a spectacle to see. We enjoyed walking around the resort, the open air bar on the second floor was playing music from the 80’s, quite fun. From there you can go out the back to see the greens and the coral reef, we even saw a flying ray. After which we walked back around to the restaurant for an amazing dinner. There are shops as well, and some guest rooms if you’d like to stay overnight at the resort.
Nanny Cay Resort
Nanny Cay will always have a special place in our hearts as this is where we purchased KINDNESS. We did our first solo sails in and around Nanny Cay, visiting Peter’s Island for our quarantine during Covid. Taking a weekend trip up to Birus Creek North Sound, and visiting the Bath’s with our own boat. All wonderful memories. We did a shake down cruise with our Captain we hired to get us back to the states per our insurance requirements, this included Jost Van Dyke, a visit to the Soggy Dollar, Foxy’s bar and grill, and Sandy Spit.
This trip we were able to visit the Indians again for some snorkeling. Then off to Leverick Bay for a nice BBQ dinner, no Jumbee’s this time it was raining. From there we headed to the Bitter End to get some Diesel, and grabbed a mooring ball just off Saba Rock. Both resorts are absolutely stunning. We were visiting with friends who graciously took us out for an amazing dinner at Saba Rock. The food, the atmosphere and the company couldn’t be beat. We rounded the trip off by going out to Oil Nut Bay and around the backside of Virgin Gorda which we had not done with our boat previously, it was a sport start, but a mild sail with following seas and a bit rolly. We continued on the Coopers Island for the night. It was an interesting anchorage the currents prevail over the wind which gave us a lee shore and a poor nights sleep. We made up for it with one last stop to Peter’s Island for a swim off the boat at Deadman’s bay and a final anchorage off Normans Island where we did one more small snorkeling adventure before we had to return our friends to Road Town as they headed back to the states.
Road Town, Tortola
Road Town was the beginning of our numerous boat projects we had to complete. It wouldn’t be a cruising adventure with fixing the boat in exotic places. We were able to accomplish several big projects: flip, re-grommet and rethread the trampolines, Redo the side windows this time with polycarbonate glass and Betaseal, empty clean and soder the port engine fuel tank, change out all the Racor filters on the boat. Continuing these projects in Martinique where we changed both exhaust elbows and belts in the yanmars. Change out the heat exchanger caps on the NL genset, and then the exhaust elbow. The fan went on the inverter so we attacked that as well. Now KINDNESS is a pretty happy camper. We do still have one more big project we are hoping to accomplish in Grenada with a little more moral support around.😎
Road town was also great for provisioning. and supplies. There was a large Rite Way across the street from a rough/worn out dinghy dock by the BVI Yacht Charters, we started leaving our dinghy in front of the boats rather than further in where we were initially told to go. Also with in reach was a gas station that filled propane tanks. And of course a little further down the road is Golden Hine Chandlery. This is all to the right of the bay facing the island. More centrally located is the Moorings, you can also pull your dinghy up to the docks there, where there is a small market, and a nice cheese and wine bakery, and a butcher. Finally off to the left you can leave your dinghy at Village Cay Marina. There you can access the town with shops, restaurants, banks and more.
