Day 6 June 20 Virgin Gorda (VG) wife AMQ wants breakfast out so off we go to Fischers Cove, leave daughter TG back at Guavaberry (GB) unit named Mango she's not quite the breakfast fan we are. Food was OK but view was better.

On the way back to GB, came up on that herd of cows again trotting down the road. Most peel off up a trail off the road except for a bull and calf who continue on a little then stop suddenly in the road. The bull turns sideways and looks pretty threatening so I stop completely and come no closer, but I did get a photo. He could probably flip the Jimmy if he wanted to.

The bull and calf finally also head up the trail. Kinda cloudy and starting to look even threatening to the north but we decide to load up car and head up to Savannah Bay and maybe points beyond. By the time we head out, a nasty squall blows thru. This is the squall that once it got back out over water, caused lotsa problems for the sailboats out there including a sinking.

We drive all the way out past Nail Bay to Long Bay hoping to snorkel up that way but weather wasn't co-operating. We stop on way back and have our sandwiches at the Savannah Bay overlook. Then into town and over to diveBVI for their afternoon dive/snorkel trip out to the Dogs. By this time weather had cleared and we picked up several divers at Little Dix then out to West Dog Island.

We briefly saw a baby turtle that swam away into the depths and TG saw a "big" shark "the pointy kind with dark tips!!" She was pretty shock up (literally) but calmed down in a few minutes, but kept looking behind us on the way back to the dive boat.

The quality of this snorkel was a little underwhelming (better for the divers) and reading about the snorkel another recent visitor took with the Bitter End folks makes me regret this choice. The BE trip sounded funner with better underwater views for snorkelers and more critters. We had considered the BE snorkel, but decided against that because we had plans to go to Biras to eat at the Fat Virgin and didn't want to go up and over that way twice.

Back to GB, clean up and head over Gorda Peak to the Leverick Bay BBQ buffet. I think I had that Jimmy floored at times to make it up. That car could use a few more horsepower.

Arrived pretty early to get a seat on the "beach" and enjoy happy hour prices. They ask if we have reservations. We say no. Sorry no more seats on the beach you have to sit by the pool, which wound up being fine. When we last went to this during high season Easter week 06, I don't even think they took reservations and we got a seat on the beach no problem. I think this thing has really grown in popularity because it was more crowded this time, and we were pleased that the quality of the buffet has really improved too, at least for us in terms of many more salads, grilled veggies etc. I joke that I may have to turn in my "man card" as find myself sometimes preferring that kind of stuff over gnawing on a bone. The band is good, not quite as smoking as in 06, and the Jumbies are always fun.

Day 7 June 21 I go out early to photograph Spring bay in the early morning light, then chillin, swimming, snorkeling, and reading at GB beach, then hike over to Little Trunk Bay. This is quite a stunning beach.

Decide to go to Mine Shaft again for dinner, very good again, but I regret not getting the BBQ because after I got my food, it looked and smelled mighty good. We swung by the Coppermine Ruins on the way to Mine Shaft. Sunset was a dud, but the chickens were entertaining again.

Day 8 more of the usual at GB beach, then the Saturday BBQ lunch at Top of the Baths with live entertainment – they are pretty good. I do get the BBQ here and it is mighty good.

Virgin Gorda seems to really knows their ‘cue (at least to this Jersey guy), not to mention the different versions of great potato salad and other sides you get everywhere. Back to the beach, I snorkel over to the Baths from GB, follow a school of blue tang around for awhile.

For dinner, we want to hit one of the other North Sound resorts and decide on the Fat Virgin. We drive then ferry over. We thought we’d walk around the resort a bit (to see how the other half lives) and then enjoy dinner. The ferry drops us at the resort dock and we are following the signs to Fat Virgin down a dirt path away from the resort, thinking OK it will be right around the corner. Its a few hundred yards til you finally get there, just in time to see the same ferry we just got off pull up to the Fat Virgin dock. D’oh!

The looks of this place is not overly impressive, but we are here, the sun is setting, and we are hungry so we don’t even backtrack to walk around the resort but plop ourselves down at one of the picnic tables for eats. Speaking of the setting sun, why didn’t the designers/architects of this place angle the buildings here so you could enjoy the sunset better? Isn’t that Site Placement 101? Service is very friendly and food was good – pasta with jerk chicken, very good BLT, and awesome flourless chocolate torte for desert.

Day 9 departure 10:30 via Air Sunshine. Get the “how much do you weigh?” at check in. then over to Flying Iguana. Puck seems like one of those islanders you have to work a little at before they act like your best friend, but then he brings the birds out, and is laughing with you and the birds, and he made up some funky eggs and toast for us.

The 10 seater ride to STJ is somewhat hazy combined with dodging some cloud banks, but the landing is oh so smooth. I get flagged at customs – my birth date doesn’t match somewhere, so have to go up to the office to get cleared. Hope this is just a one time thing. AA agrees to put us on an earlier fight back to JFK so we actually get all the way home while there is still light.

Final thoughts: We were ANG virgins this trip. Anegada is more like an “optional go back” vs. the no-brainer “MUST go back” vibe we immediately got with St. John and Virgin Gorda. Great for a day trip or a couple days but I don’t think we could do a week there.

Beautiful, wild beaches and fun beach bars and the friendliest people you’ll ever find, but not much in terms of amenities (we do like a greater variety of dining options), plus with I think we would miss the views of terrain spilling down to the sea that the other islands give you. But, I can really see why the Anegada regulars here on TTOL say things like its not about what we saw or what we did, it’s who we saw/who we caught up with again.

Photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jmackq/0806BVIAnegadaVG