DAY 3 The Baths and North Sound of Virgin Gorda Isle:

Ok, well now i can understand (partially) what the navy men of old kind of went through. All of these days are starting to run together. There are no markers to determine which day it is, only sunrise, sunset, and a new course and island destination in mind. Todays destination: Fat Girl Island ( actually Virgin Gorda Island, sounds much cooler that way lol)

Turns out way back Columbus was the first EUROPEAN to "DISCOVER" the island, (even though the Caribs or some other indian tribe of the Carribean had already inhabited it. He saw it off in the distance on the horizon, and again, after a long, LONG time at sea he proclaimed he would name it Virgin Gorda, because to him it looked like a fat chick laying on her side, all seductive like n' stuff..lol. To the east some legs, then as you follow the horizon to the west some big mts. that make up some big hips, then some shoulders and a head. I guess he wasn't too far off, cuz when you throw salt water in your eyes, squint real hard, and focus on the fact that you don't have a significant other, all at the same time…. YEP!!! There it is! i can see it!!!, clear as day….lol just kiddin…..no im not

So we released the mooring booey from the coral reef protected waters of Marina Cay, and set sail on a south easterly couse for the famous baths of V.G. Twas a fairly strong easterly wind ablow (isn't it great when you just make up and use words to sound all educated, even though they prolly don't even exist , and as long as you don't use it around someone who thinks theyre smarter then you, then everyone just acts like its all good and compliments you on the size of your vocab…lol, yeah thats great..). We sailed about 2-3 hrs and reached the baths.

The baths are quite the lil natural geological site. We moored just off the coast and took the dingy in part way, then swam the remainder cuz you cant take the dingies onto the beach, i guess a swimmer got ran over or some junk… :( So i guess some kind of volcanic activity created all these crazy boulders right on the beach, and this network of boulders now joins together to form this large network of caves that allow in salt water. So it makes for a cool hike with some awesome pool filled caverns. Just check out the pics!

After the caves, we swam back out to the dingy, and after I pulled ALL who couldn't get onto the dingy on their own, (which was EVERYONE) back on board, we set sail east for the North Sound of V.G. We had a strong head wind so we took a close hauled course and made good time.

The sound was pretty cool, its home to a pretty exclusive resort (one of the many here) called the Bitter End. We dropped anchor and made a delicious dinner, New York steaks, potatoes, broccoli, and red wine.

I gotta say as i sat there, eating a delicious meal, hearing the sound of the waves lapping against the hull of the boat, and almost incessantly gazing up at the millions of stars shimmering in the night sky, i said more than a few prayers of thanks to Jehovah God. I remembered the scripture in Ecclesiastes 3:12,13. The one that says it is good for every man to eat and drink and see good for the hard work he has accomplished with his hand, it truly is the gift of God.