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    We anchored the boat offshore and took the dingy in.  Here Jonathan is raising the motor on the dingy.

    There's our boat.  The BVI National Parks department has put in day moorings so that boats don't need to anchor and potentially damage the coral.  The moorings are handy but the Baths is a popular spot and boats still anchor in the area.

    I thought this was a neat shot.  Rain off in the distance on the big island of Tortola.  We didn't get any rain at the Baths.  We were, in fact, very fortunate with the weather throughout the trip.  We had excellent wind, only a couple of days of really hot weather and very little rain.  The times we did get rain were a couple of evenings as we were anchoring.

    Another shot of the rain off in the distance.  Snorkeling was great around the boulders.

When we first arrived at the Baths, all of the moorings were being used so we set out to drop anchor.  And drop anchor is exactly what we did.  As the anchor and chain were being lowered, the chain came off of the gypsy (pulley for the chain on the electric motor to raise and lower the anchor) and we dropped 110 feet of chain in the water!  We finally got the chain and anchor raised and a mooring opened up.  It was a mad dash to get there before another boat.  As we approached the mooring, someone dropped the boat hook in the water while attempting to grab the mooring line.   (I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the other person may have been motoring too fast...)  Anyway, I yelled for Jonathan to jump in after it.  Finally, after recovering a man overboard, dropped boat hook and waving another boat off, we managed to tie up to the mooring.

    Once onshore, there were several caves and rock formations to explore.

After lunch we sailed on to Trellis Bay on Tortola for the evening.  In the middle of the bay is a small island that has a bar and restaurant.  We dined on the boat and went ashore for the evening's entertainment and a few "Island Moose(s)" (Are more than one an Island Meese?).

Thursday morning we went back to the Baths for more swimming and exploration before heading up to the Bitter End on Gorda Sound .

On to Gorda Sound and the Bitter End