Position 18:43.15N 64:22.85W
Freewheel
Julian & Anne Whitlock
Sat 27 Mar 2010 00:51
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24 - 25 Mar 2010 Anagada, British Virgin
Islands
Anagada is the one island we hadn't been to on our previous
visits to the BVIs, but we had ideal
conditions this time so set off to visit this fabled,
away-from-it-all paradise.
The deserted image was slightly tarnished by 40 other yachts
in the anchorage and high-speed
charter catamarans speeding past us in the tight entrance
through the reefs whilst we held our breath
with 0.1m registering below the kee, but
the beaches are superb..
It is a stony, flat island with much dry prickly vegetation,
but very little indication of what supports
the 250 population - other than much lobster catching and
government service (the grandest buildings
were in the new complex holding the police and fire
stations and the post office.)
The picture is not of the pristine beaches - there've been
lots of those on our travals - but the
bizarre sight of a huge artificial Christmas tree, permanently
mounteded on the roundabout
which seemed totally out of place anyway since one road was a
dead end and in any case a
maximum of one vehicle in 5 minutes passes this, the only
junction on the island.
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