Road Town and Little Harbor

Here are some random photos of our time in Road Harbor, Tortola and the return trip to Little Harbor on Peter Island. We needed to be in Road Harbor, mainly, for meeting with the "nice" custom agents to extend our time in the BVI. We went in our best clothes to sell ourselves and it worked...they will let us stay until April 30th...even though we needed and asked to stay until the end of June. Oh...and we had to pay $20. Everytime you go in or out of the BVI (air or sea) you are charged a customs fee and even a surcharge if on Sunday, and the amount never seems to be the same each time. But hey, maybe it's just us. We still will go in and out of the BVI to visit other places.

Above is a photo of the community Christmas tree in Road Town. Most of the people here appear to be Christian, with numerous stores playing music and many people singing Christian songs. This is especially noticeable during this season.

Below is one of the cruise ships that came to Tortola over night...I believe it is one of the Princess ships.While we were anchored in the harbor, we saw three other various cruise ships. We were there for 6 days. The water color was medium brown...like chocolate milk. When asking someone why it wasn't very clean looking, we were told that the direct sewage outflow for the town was right behind our boat. Not sure if it is actually untreated or not. Anyway, it was pretty special to pull up the anchor, as it had quite a layer of "stuff" on it. No snorkling here!

While on our way out of Road Harbor over to Peter Island, this smaller cruise ship passed behind us. Karen googled the ship name and found out this company will provide for your cruising pleasure at a nominal fee of $12000/wk, pp,dbl occupancy.

The other photos are of us being silly/happy at being in our fav anchorage. The only downside was when I decided to snorkle around the hull of the boat and clean off the brown slime and barnacles. Yuck!