CHILDREN'S ARTICLE:
A SAILING CHARTER TO ANEGADA: SMALL IN PEOPLE, BUT BIG IN ADVENTURE

Anegada is as far north as the British Virgin Islands can go, and it is a great side trip to take on a sailing charter. Anegada is one of the flattest islands in the BVI. It is flat because the island is made out of coral, not lava like the rest of the BVI. In the olden days, there were a lot of ship wrecks on Anegada because the captains could not see the coral reefs surrounding the island until it was too

late to slow down and turn around. Today, if you sail there, you have to be very careful because there is only a narrow, shallow channel between the coral reefs that allows you to get safely into the anchorage.

There are very few people that live on the island, but there are a lot of animals. Cows, goats, donkeys and iguanas are some of the animals we observed. There is supposed to be a big flock of flamingoes that live near the salt ponds, but we did not see any when we were there.

Even though there are not many people living on the island, the restaurants serve some of the best food I have ever eaten. We stopped at a small bakery, called Caffe’s that sells fresh muffins and bread every day. My family still talks about how good the warm muffins were right out of the oven. We ate dinner at the Anegada Reef Hotel. Most people eat grilled lobster there, but I had barbecued chicken. Dinner is cooked right on the beach. It was so big that I could only eat half of it, but the half that I ate was the best grilled chicken I have ever had! My brother had lobster for the first time, and all he kept saying was, “This is delicious.”

Most people in Anegada walk instead of drive. The roads (really just sand tracks) are one lane, and every once in awhile there is a block of cement so if two cars meet going in different directions, one of them can pull over and wait until the other car passes. We rode around in a jeep and got to see most of the island. We even swam in the Atlantic Ocean at Loblolly Bay and Cow Wreck Bay. (Aren’t those silly names?). Those beaches were pretty, but it sure is rougher than the Caribbean Sea!

I had so much fun on my sailing trip to Anegada. It is now my favorite island in the BVI. I hope if you get a chance to go there on your sailing charter, you will like it as much as I did!

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