North Sound, Virgin Gorda BVI

[Kevin's Post]We left Road Town on Friday in the pouring rain. Ordinarily we wouldn't choose to move the boat in inclement weather, but with dockage costing $120 a night the money won out. We had planned to head over to Cooper Island to check out some of the dive sites around there, but a couple miles out of Road Town we changed our destination to Norman Island rather than pound into 25 knots to get to Cooper.

Before we left Road town, we dropped our scuba tanks off to get recertified. Unfortunately one of our two tanks failed and was condemned due to corrosion. We asked the dive shop if they had any used tanks they wanted to sell, and ended up buying 3 more tanks. So now we have 4 tanks total which is great because now we can do twice as many dives between fills. At Norman, we dove The Indians and Pelican Island. We saw an anaconda sized Moray eel on the first dive, and some huge lobsters on the second.

Jim and Amanda (previously of Adventure Bound) were off charter this week so we met up with them at Norman and they dove Pelican Island with us. We also joined them for dinner and drinks Monday night at the Willy T (floating bar at Norman Island).

We had a couple days of horrible weather while we were at Norman and the gusty wind killed our wind generator. One of the slip rings between the pedestal and the generator broke off so there is no electrical contact any more. I don't have a decent soldering iron on board, so have no way to fix it for now. Hopefully the genset will continue to work until I can figure out how to fix the wind generator.

We left Norman Tuesday AM and headed for The Dogs to dive a site there called The Chimney. This site is named for a narrow canyon that is like a rock climbing "chimney". It was a pretty cool dive with several canyons and a large underwater arch you can swim through. We had planned to also dive another nearby site with an airplane wreck, but the visibility wasn't very good, so we called it a day after the first dive.

After diving we motored over to a nearby anchorage called Savannah Bay, it was large, flat and empty. A little too empty, we thought. Around 11pm we discovered why. It started to roll pretty bad and we had another sleepless night.

This morning we headed to North Sound in Virgin Gorda where we found a nice (hopefully flat) anchoring spot and did a little exploring this afternoon. We had beers at Saba Rock, lunch at the Bitter End Yacht Club, and went for a nice walk all the way over to Biras Creek Resort.