Today we had plans to do a mountain hike and then to go snorkeling on the beach afterwards. But upon waking up we were informed that the tour was canceled. The path was too muddy because of all the rain. As it was too late to get another excursion planned we were winging it again.
We docked at the pier in Tortola, thus no tender today. Tortola is the name of the island and the city you dock in is called Road Town. There are only 16,000 people in Tortola. They are part of the British Commonwealth and as such the town seemed much more organized than Samana.
We decided to take a ferry from Boat Town to Virgin Gorda. This is another island in the BVI that is about 35 minutes on the ferry from Road Town. Virgin Gorda has a really nice national park called the Baths. The view of our ship and Road Town from the ferry:
As you can see it is still raining, day two with our rain jackets being paramount.
But the beauty of the Caribbean is that the weather changes in a heartbeat. This picture is from the restaurant above the baths:
The baths, started raining again.
As you can see, the baths is basically this really cool beach with these huge rock formations. It is quite scenic, but because of the rocks the undertow and currents created by all the waves make this a relatively dangerous place to swim. Paty with the large rocks:
We then took the ferry back to Road Town and stopped for the second time at an authentic English Caribbean pub called Pusser’s. They actually exported rum from this pub to England and the US. So it’s a kind of Micro distillery. A very cool place, in fact in retrospect the best pub we found on the trip. Here's the website in case you are interested:
Pusser's
Dinner this night was again the Italian restaurant.
Tuha note:
The best thing about this port is the pub. Too maximize your use of the day here, either plan an excursion or else take the ferry to Virgin Gorda on your own and hang out in the baths. The package will cost $30 each for the ferry from Road Town to Virgin Gorda and transfer to Baths National Park. But if you want to get some cool pub gear from the Caribbean, Pusser’s was the only such place we found on the entire cruise and it was really nice stuff. Plus, what’s better than random bar paraphernalia to start conversations for the next few years?
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