Day 2 - Totola to Virgin Gorda

(Fred) Yesterday our travel plans went exactly as planned, you can't ask for more than that, we arrived in Tortola, Beef Island at about 5:30PM, and then met up with Mike and Teresa at 6PM, perfect timing.

We got a van to take the eight of us from the airport to our hotel for the night Maria's by the Sea.  Holy crap, we almost died about five times, the roads are narrow, hilly and apparently driving on your side (the left) is just a recommendation, I was sitting between Donna and Jean, I have claw marks in both of my legs.  The more Donna screamed, the faster our driver seemed to go, he even drag raced a bunch of kids, yes he won.  Everyone was pretty tired and hungry when we finally got checked in.  It is not good to be in a hurry for anything here, we gathered for dinner and it seemed we would quench our hunger quickly, but not on "Island Time". Although the food was good, it did take a long time to get and there was no rushing them.  Today we will nose around here a bit and then take the ferry to our Villa in Virgin Gorda.

(Jean) Day 2 -- Awake at 6:00, showered and down in the lobby at 6:30 with Fred on the computer.  Very warm and humid - just what we asked for! Ed tried to find coffee - gave up. Breakfast at 7:30 we hope.
(June) Awakened by the roosters!  Yes, there are roosters and chickens roaming everywhere, even at the airport.  Quite comfortable temperature right now with a little breeze, no worries mon.

(Fred) This morning we were still in Tortola and had some time to kill so the girls did some shopping, then we set off for the Ferry to Virgin Gorda.  We thought we were on the 11:30, but when we got there we found that there was no 11:30 so we booked the 12:30. Since we had some time we decided to go for a walk, well we found Pusser's, the famous bar of the BVIs.  We had some 'pain killers' to steel our selves for the water crossing to VG.  It is a good thing we had to leave in an hour because those twins took a fancy to those 'pain killers' and we would have been in trouble. We boarded the Ferry and arrived in VG, where we got a taxi...another white knuckle ride...we stopped at the local store where you can buy food and booze...which we did. 

We arrived at our Villa around 2PM, our Villa is is huge with breath taking views of the ocean, just what we had hoped for.

 (Donna) Arrived at Virgin Gorda,  AHHH taxi drivers waiting.  Open air bus, groceries and then a hair raising drive across the island. The heights were amazing and the views were beyond description.  Steep is not an exaggeration for the roads, sometimes they just dropped.  The villa, oh, what a place!  Choose a bedroom, yeah, we each got the best one.  Now time for another relaxing beverage.  Two minute walk to the beach.  5 minute walk to the Leverick Bay hotel.  Had to break out the snorkeling gear.  Where to go, oh yeah the pool.  What fun, no coral or minnows but there were two or three sharks.  Yes, and watch Jean learn to use her snorkel.  Huh!  The hardest decision was what to make to drink next.  Yes and Bob, the Pagan gawd--- let's see oh there he is on the deck--- most of the day.  Tomorrow we will head for Anegada via ferry to snorkel for real on Lobllolly beach.  Goodnight Irene