Day Nine

Courtney and I had today off so we decided to take a ferry over to Virgin Gorda. We've heard a lot about a place called the Baths and how beautiful it is and so had to pay it a visit. The ferry cost $30 from Road Town and took about 30 minutes to get there. We then got a taxi from the ferry terminal to the Baths for $3 each one way. The guy came to pick us up again later (which we had to pre-arrange with him when he dropped us there) as there are no taxis that just sit waiting for you. There were a lot of people visiting from cruise ships or charter companies and so walking through the rocks was quite time-consuming to get to the lovely beach at the other side. I'll add some pictures tomorrow (EDIT - DONE, SEE BELOW) as I haven't uploaded them yet - truely they are gorgeous! :)


This is the first beach you arrive at after walking down through the first set of rocks.


This is the Baths.


Do you see the orca?


This is looking out into the channel.


One of the beach's permanent residents!


The gorgeous beach you reach after your trek through the rocks!


This is the first beach again (after practically everyone has left!).

We also stopped there for lunch and as we got there quite early decided we may as well spend the whole day as the weather was lovely (for the most part) and we weren't too sure what else to do on VG. Within about an hour of us getting to the beach everyone else had practically left so there must have been about 8 people total on the beach! Just fab!! :)
When we returned to Tortola we got a little food shopping done and then hitched a lift back to the apartment. We then got ready for the Full Moon Party at Trellis Bay. Got a taxi there for $5 and joined the growing mass of people on the beach. The craft fair was still on and there were lots more people actually manning the stalls. I got a fab cute pair of shell earrings and Courtney got a wooden mask and a lovely silver banana leaf ring.
The rest of the dive shop peeps arrived not long after we did and we sat talking and laughing all night. (Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the FMP as my camera batteries died right as we arrived! Boo, hiss!!) Finally Steve gave us a lift home and we hit the hay.


This is Trellis Bay taken on a previous visit. Imagine the metal ball things filled with fire and lots of people standing around/dancing to the band/drinking etc etc :)