BVI 2020 Day 09 Indians & Sandy Cay & Cane Garden Bay

Noisy coffee machine started at 08:00.

I made breakfast of sausages and pancakes.

We left the ball a little after 09:00 and motored over to the Indians:

Trip Odometer: 1.38 miles
Moving Average: 5.1 knots
Moving Time: 00:06:31

The Indians are a National Park (no anchoring allowed).
We were able to get a day ball fairly close.
Rita and I have never been there.
Most of us ventured out for a swim and snorkel.
It was awesome.
Sorry no photos, but I do have some underwater video that I still have to download.

We left at around 10:30 bound for Sandy Cay on Jost Van Dyke.

Winds were very light <10 knots from the east.
We shook out the reefs on the main and sailed the entire way.

BATTERIES DIED on the GPS NO TRACK

Trip Odometer: 11.2 miles
Moving Average: 5.1 knots
Max Speed: 8.9 knots
Moving Time: 02:12:00

Sandy Cay is another place that Rita and I have not been to.
We took a day ball

The white sand beach was awesome.
Rita/I, Hans/Debbie, and Jon/Dude went ashore and explore the island.
The island was not very big.  It took about 15 minutes to follow the trails around the back side of the island.

Coming back in the dinghy, Hans decided to jump in the water as we neared the boat at it was very warm.  He forgot about his brand new prescription sunglasses he was wearing!

We were in about 18ft of water with a sandy bottom.
I put on a mask/snorkle and fins.  I floated on the water until I could see them on the bottom, then dove down and got them!

I would say Don is pretty relaxed

This shot is now the wallpaper on my computer

We had lunch, then dropped the ball, raised the sails to go across the channel to Cane Garden Bay

GPS TRACK FUBARED

Trip Odometer: 3.12 miles
Moving Average: 2.7 knots
Moving Time: 01:08:00

We motored into the bay, and tied up to the town dock and fill both our water tanks, as we were down to 1/4 tank left on one tank, and had two more nights on the boat.

Took a ball about 200 yards from shore.

$30 USD

This is the rate typical of taking a ball all over the BVI.
We always asked for a receipt.

We dingyed ashore and walked the beach.
We decided to have dinner at a beachfront place called Paradise Bar and Restaurant.

We had a table just behind the umbrellas here, but we all were getting bit by sand fleas, so we moved inside the restaurant.

There was a fire on the beach, and the music started from club Paradise.
MAN IT WAS LOUD

We were talking (screaming) to the owner of the club.

He was saying that he could hear the music from his house on the top of the hill.

Music to his ears because it means he is making money!

We got back to the boat around 21:00.
The music from club Paradise was still LOUD and went NON STOP until 3am!
NOBODY slept well this night.

I would not recommend staying in Cane Garden Bay because of this!