The Baths at Virgin Gorda
Later in the week I opt for an afternoon ashore on Virgin Gorda to visit The Baths. The entire south-west end of Virgin Gorda is a mound of fractured volcanic granite. With sea level changes this has eroded along the shoreline to a complex forest of tumbled granite boulders with classic white powder sandy beaches in the glades. It is the first time I have seen this type of scenery in the Caribbean.
As a child my parents could have lost me at the Baths for a week. I would have had a fantastic time exploring, crawling through some of the narrower cracks and scrambling over the rocks. But who am I trying to fool, I am still a big kid at heart and did that anyway. My only concession to age was I didn't get lost for a week - I had to get back to the diving.
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