We woke up early this morning and took the taxi to Road Town to start our journey home. It goes something like this: Tortola = San Juan = Puerto Rico = Tampa = Dallas = Phoenix and 15 hours later you’ll be home! Overall it was an amazing trip and definitely one of the most adventurous I’ve ever been on! We loved it!
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June 23, 2007- Somewhere in the air on the way home…
Posted by Scott Rowley on June 27th, 2007June 22, 2007 Jost Van Dyke to Nanny Cay
Posted by Scott Rowley on June 27th, 2007This morning we left Jost Van Dyke and headed to Soper’s Hole which is a neat little harbor with some shops and a cool bar that we got some virgin daiquiris from. After that we sailed through the Sir Francis Drake Channel and ended up back at “The Indians” for one last dive. I sat that one out since I had already dived and snorkeled there, but Lonica had a good dive and got some pictures of lobsters. We then took the Windancer back to nanny Cay and took care of things like the rented gear, boat checkout etc. I was feeling exhausted (probably from not eating or drinking enough) and I started to get this annoying rash on my right elbow, so I went to bed early.
June 21, 2007 Spanish Town to Jost Van Dyke
Posted by Scott Rowley on June 27th, 2007Spanish Town was ok, there was a buffet restaurant that we all ate at called the Bath and Turtle and we realized that we had left our power cord for the boat at Nanny Cay and so we had to scrounge around for the proper 50 amp cord (very hard to find). Thursday morning we woke up and sailed fast to the wreck of the Chikuzan, a Japanese refrigerated cargo ship which was poorly such near Puerto Rico and drifted 70 miles to BVI. It was pretty much out in the open water with nothing around for miles. It only had one mooring ball and we were very lucky that when we got there the boat that was moored up was just leaving. It was windy with a slight surface current when Paul, Dave, Sarah and Candace got in the water to take the first dive. They couldn’t find the wreck and popped at too far away to swim so I took the dinghy to get them. It was pretty gnarly getting back to the boat but we made it without sinking the little dinghy despite the heavy gear and waves. Another boat had pulled up by this point and they directed us toward the wreck which was in front of the mooring ball, not behind it. Dad dove again with Lonica, Lisa and me (Scott).
The wreck was amazing—straight on its port side so the large deck openings were sticking out to the side. The top of the wreck was about 65’ deep and the ocean floor was at 85’. The boat is about 300 feet long so you couldn’t see the bow from the stern despite the good visibility. Within 30 seconds of finding the wreck we saw a 10-12’ black tip reef shark. There were tons of barracuda and we ended up seeing several other sharks, nurse sharks, before ascending.
I got a couple of great pictures and Lonica had a great time too.
From there we headed to a little deserted island (excepting the “island caretaker” who’s whole job is just to watch over this beautiful sugar-sanded beach). We had a good time rubbing our toes in the sand and taking pictures. Kendee, of course, had to show off a bit of her dancing…
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After that dive we sailed to Jost Van Dyke and moored in Little Bay for the night. I had to take a test for one of my ASU online classes so I took the laptop onto shore with the dinghy and after asking a few people, found someone with internet. It was this hilarious black lad named Indie who was so laid back and didn’t mind at all that this sweaty American was using her DSL. It was a beautiful day.
June 20, 2007- Virgin Gorda
Posted by Lonica on June 27th, 2007Today we got up early, way too early for some—especially those who stayed up late reading—and headed over to the Baths of Virgin Gorda. The setting was beautiful! The island is surrounded by huge boulders that just out into the ocean. We all rode the dinghy into shore and then followed this short hike around and through the boulders.
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It reminded me a bit of hiking through Zion’s. At the end of the hike we ended up in Devil’s Bay where the sand was pure white and the water crystal blue. We snorkeled around and saw many fish. I get the weirdest sense that I’m simply swimming in a salt water aquarium, rather than actually swimming in the ocean. Aquariums seem more really that the actual ocean does. It’s amazing how fantastic the underwater world is!
After snorkeling around to our dinghy, we grabbed a quick lunch and headed over to the Dogs. Scott, Paul, Lisa and I all dove there, and although it was pretty with lots of different types of coral and fish, it still didn’t compare to the dives of yesterday at the Rhone and Wreck alley. I’m something of a wreck diver—at least I’ve found that’s my favorite! Tonight we will be mooring at Spanish town-hopefully they will have showers as nice as those at Nanny Cay (no luck…).
June 19, 2007- I’m a wreck diver!
Posted by Lonica on June 27th, 2007Today we went on two dives, one to the RMS Rhone and another to wreck alley. These dives were fantastic. It was great to see the wrecks under water. We went really deep too, which was exciting and fun! These dives made all the classes and practice worth it. I wish we had had more time when we were at wreck alley because e didn’t have the air or time to stay longer and see the third ship. Oh well…it was still really neat.
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Tonight, rather than returning to Nanny Cay, we moored at Cooper Island. We relaxed on the beach for a few hours and then had dinner at the small, good but overpriced restaurant there in the cove. I stayed up late and finished reading my book which I also started today. So far on our trip I have completed three books. Now that’s a vacation for me!