The Baths
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 3 Jan 2010 22:42
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The Baths of Virgin
Gorda
When Christopher Columbus discovered
the Virgin Islands on his second voyage in 1493, he anchored off Salt River Bay
in St Croix for fresh water, he was then driven by unfavourable winds to Virgin
Gorda. Seeing the numerous islands he named them "the Virgins" in honour of St
Ursula and the 11,000 virgins who, threatened by the marauding Huns in 4th
Century Cologne, sacrificed their lives rather than submit to a fate worse than
death. Virgin Gorda may have got it's name 'Fat Virgin' because when Colombus
viewed it from the sea he thought it resembled a reclining woman with a
protruding belly.
 We left Leverick Bay and arrived at
the National Park site "the Virgin Baths" where we waited for a day buoy, no
anchoring is permitted in the area. Jump and I
ashore.
  A stroll among these
huge volcanic rocks.
  Bear and Jump
reading the sign telling them we would have to scramble, climb, paddle and follow the path through to
Devil's Bay
  The climbing bit and the
paddling bit
  Through to Devil's
Bay we decided to swim back rather than the scramble, paddle etc. Jump trying to sit on a rock and falling off
  The Intrepid
Explorers stop to point out a crab to me, I was already with this handsome chap
  The rocks come in all sizes, mostly huge. The water is cristal clear.
 Jump showing off
the bruise she got when she missed our newly built walkway into the
sea on Prickly Pear Island.
 Still ticking
aside she makes for a lovely model next to something larger
 The
Intrepids stop to admire Nature's Handiwork
ALL IN ALL AN INCREDIBLE
SIGHT
VERY BEAUTIFUL
AMAZING
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