After a couple of wonderful days in North Sound on Virgin Gorda we decided to head north to Anegada on Friday. We've been to the BVI's several times but had not yet been there. All the other islands in the BVI are line-of-sight navigation, meaning that you don't really need to use charts or a chart plotter to get from island to island. But Anegada is farther away than the other islands and it is low elevation so you can't see it until you are close to it. Charts or a chartplotter are helpful to say the least.
We had perfect weather for sailing, so we put up the sails and practically flew up to Anegada, doing 8+ knots most of the time (our max speed was 10.1 while surfing, which is really fast for us considering that most of the time we are motoring into the wind at about six knots max.)
Wide stretches of sandy beach skirt around the edge of the whole island. We decided to head over to Loblolly Bay to hang out on the beach for the afternoon. The weather was sunny, but a brisk northerly breeze kept us cool. We snorkeled the reef and saw some interesting coral heads, then hung out on the beach enjoying some rum and cokes. Since Anegada seems to be renowned for its lobsters, we made sure to have a couple for dinner...over two pounds apiece...we were stuffed!
On Sunday we decided to head back. Winds were light, so we motorsailed back down to Tortola. We anchored in Fat Hog's Bay and soon were in the middle of our typical scenario: arrive at an anchorage in the afternoon, the holding is great/water is flat so we wonder "why haven't we ever heard of what a great anchorage this is?" only to find ourselves seasick with rolling waves around one in the morning. Kevin did notice that some of the moorings closer to the reef looked flatter, so we picked one of those up today (Monday) and are breathing big sighs of relief and looking forward to a more restful night tonight!
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