BVI Day-7 ; Thursday April 2 (Return to the Moorings, Cane Garden Bay Beaches, Island Bar Hopping)

On Thursday April 2nd, we left the Treasure Point Caves & returned back to our home base on Tortola.

You may ask – why did you go back to Tortola on Thursday, if you have the boat chartered thru Friday.
Answers ;
* We had flights at about Noon & had to be at the airport about 10am, thus had leave about 9:30am Friday
* We also had to complete the “end-of-trip vessel inspection” with the representative from The Moorings.
* We also wanted to see/visit the Island of Tortola.

Not knowing how significant the “end-of-trip inspection” would be, we opted for an early return to Tortola.
We arrived back at home base about 10:30-11:00am on Thursday.

Surprisingly, when we returned to the marina at The Moorings & called the dockmaster on the VHF radio for our slip assignment, they advised us that they would be sending our re-entry Captian out to meet us. Evidently, this is thier process for all of the Moorings Charters, returning to home base.

We had to hold position inside of The Moorings Harbour for about 10 minutes.
The re-entry captain arrived by dinghy, boarded our boat, and docked the 47ft vessel like it was a sports car.
I thought that we were in one of them – Fishing Boat Speed Docking Contests.
Very Impressive.

Shortly after docking, we went up to the office to check back in, and request our inspection.
When we got back to the boat, there was a guy at the boat named “Moses”, no kidding !
Moses asked – do you want your inspection now, we said sure.

The inspection process was a breeze !
Moses asked if everything worked – we said yes, but discussed a couple small things we noticed.
He asked – did you use the Watermaker, we said yes.
He asked – did we follow all the check-marks on the paper for return check-in, we said yes.
He said – sign here, initial here – we were done !!!
Very nice guy, very simple process.
It’s been 2 weeks since, & I have not received any new bills from The Moorings – so I think that we are good $.

About 2 hours after we arrived back at The Moorings and got checked in, we had a pretty good rain storm.
Shortly after the rain we still had full clouds, but an open window with no rain – so we scheduled a shuttle to take us to the north side of Tortola, to one of the most popular beaches – Cane Garden Bay.

Google = Cane Garden Bay is a popular, lively white-sand beach on the north shore of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, known for its calm, turquoise waters, numerous beach bars, and restaurants.

Our first stop at Cane Garden Bay, was a place recommended by the shuttle driver.
The first Beach Bar was called Myett’s.

Google = Myett’s (often referred to as Myett’s Garden Inn or Myett’s Garden & Grille) is a popular, family-run beachfront hotel and restaurant situated directly on Cane Garden Bay in Tortola, BVI. It is known for its relaxed, Caribbean atmosphere, offering casual dining, live entertainment, a gift shop, and lodging with tropical garden surroundings

In spite of the shuttle drivers recommendation, Myett’s was kind of a “sleepy place”.
Maybe it was due to the rain & overcast skies.
Our team seemed a bit tuckered out, after a week of partying.
But they did have the famous BVI “Painkillers”.

Our second stop on the Beach Bar Tour, was a place called The Paradise Club
This place was a bit more upbeat, or maybe it was the 2 for $10 drinks.
Of which, most of us had 4 for $20 !
Nita = maybe 6 for $30 (just kidding)
The Paradise Club also had the Swings on the Beach (Photo Op) & Swings at the Bar.

While we were at Paradise, we saw a dog going after a Crab in the Sand.
We’re not sure if the dog killed the crab or not.
The dog came up with nothing, after a good hard-fought dig.

Our final stop on the Beach Bar Tour was a place called “Rythum & Sands – Legendary Restaurant & Bar”. No kidding, it really says Legendary !

I’m not sure of what they are “Legendary” for, but the workers at Rythum & Sands – definitely had RYTHUM.

I’m also really not sure how the next sequence of events started, I think that Hinman started it by dancing with one of the waitstaff girls (Sashsa), and Rich thru the party into hyperwarp speed by joining in.

But before we knew it, we were –
* Dancing with the Wait Staff !
* Dancing with other patrons in a Conga Line*
* Buying drinks for the Wait Staff & other patrons.
* Ginger & Anita were dancing like life-long friends (remember – they just met a week ago).

Surprisingly, we don’t seem to have any photos of dinner that night.

I know that we had dinner in The Moorings complex, at a place called Charlie’s Bar.

The place was packed, but we got lucky & nabbed 6 seats at the bar, and the bartender was “a hoot”.

After dinner, we went back to the boat for our final night.

Ashley tried to Rally-the-Troops with a final night of Dancing.
But the Troops were all a bit wiped out.
It was more like, a night of quiet reminiscing, or our weeklong adventure.

The clouds were finally starting to break.
It was a very calm, very pretty, last night on the boat.

The next morning, the Hinmans’ and Murphs’ were loading onto the airport shuttle at 9:30am.

The Cooks had a late flight at about 3pm, and lounged by the pool for a few hours.

The Trip was Over.
One fantastic Week in the BVI.
Another bucket list “checkbox” in life completed !

Farewell BVI !!!
It was one awesome week with Family & Friends, in an Island Paradise.

This will be our last posting for the trip.
Thanks for reading.
Hope you enjoyed the “Virtual” trip to The BVI

Mike/Ashley, Rich/Anita, Dave/Ginger