BVI - Settling In...
Settling in....the story from 2007.......
Compared to Curacao the islands are much more typical ‘Caribbean’, very lush and green and hilly with pure white sandy beaches and palm trees as well as other tropical plants, although it does get very dry in the summer. Virgin Gorda is very small and hilly and everyone is so friendly – even the road works man smiles and says hello every morning. There is practically no crime here and it’s taken us a while to get used to leaving the car door unlocked with the keys in it and go to the beach without having to station a sniper to look after our stuff while we snorkel. There's some amazing views of the scenery here in the gallery below.
Our favourite beach is called Spring Bay which is a white sandy beach surrounded by huge volcanic boulders which create amazing little caves and crevices that you can swim and snorkel in and around. There are a few casual bars and restaurants on the island and there are also lots of little islands dotted around with bars and restaurants on that you can only get to by boat.
The shops are limited on Virgin Gorda but amazingly well stocked. We can get pretty much anything we want at the supermarket and there’s even a British shop on Tortola for all those home comforts we’ve been missing over the last couple of years
The job is fantastic, better than we could have hoped for. We’re managing a shop of our own on the tiny island of Marina Cay next to Beef Island. It used to be a really busy little island but over the last couple of years it’s been a bit neglected so we have been given the task of turning it around which we’re quite excited about. So far we’ve set a record for the most sales in July in the Marina Cay Dive BVI history which is a good start but something we’re now going to have to keep up!
In addition to the diving we also have a small retail store and have been given free reign to design it how we want and sell what we want. We are also the only shop owned by Dive BVI that is allowed to set it’s own dive schedule, so we can dive pretty much anywhere we want to go!
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Read MoreCompared to Curacao the islands are much more typical ‘Caribbean’, very lush and green and hilly with pure white sandy beaches and palm trees as well as other tropical plants, although it does get very dry in the summer. Virgin Gorda is very small and hilly and everyone is so friendly – even the road works man smiles and says hello every morning. There is practically no crime here and it’s taken us a while to get used to leaving the car door unlocked with the keys in it and go to the beach without having to station a sniper to look after our stuff while we snorkel. There's some amazing views of the scenery here in the gallery below.
Our favourite beach is called Spring Bay which is a white sandy beach surrounded by huge volcanic boulders which create amazing little caves and crevices that you can swim and snorkel in and around. There are a few casual bars and restaurants on the island and there are also lots of little islands dotted around with bars and restaurants on that you can only get to by boat.
The shops are limited on Virgin Gorda but amazingly well stocked. We can get pretty much anything we want at the supermarket and there’s even a British shop on Tortola for all those home comforts we’ve been missing over the last couple of years
The job is fantastic, better than we could have hoped for. We’re managing a shop of our own on the tiny island of Marina Cay next to Beef Island. It used to be a really busy little island but over the last couple of years it’s been a bit neglected so we have been given the task of turning it around which we’re quite excited about. So far we’ve set a record for the most sales in July in the Marina Cay Dive BVI history which is a good start but something we’re now going to have to keep up!
In addition to the diving we also have a small retail store and have been given free reign to design it how we want and sell what we want. We are also the only shop owned by Dive BVI that is allowed to set it’s own dive schedule, so we can dive pretty much anywhere we want to go!
More to follow......
