Treasure Island

We spent a day and a half at Norman Island, the first island along the southern edge of the Sir Francis Drake Channel. It is often referred to as “Treasure Island” and is believed to be the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson’s book of the same name. The main anchorage is in The Bight. From above the harbour looks like something took a big bight out of the north-west corner of the island. Guarding the entrance to the Bight are a number of islands called The Indians and a bigger one called Pelican Island.










Today the island is privately owned although we could not find any mention of the owner’s name.
The only business on the island is a bar/restaurant called the Pirate’s Bight, on the beach. We had a meal of fish and chips and jerked chicken.




The other attraction on the island is a set of caves on the western corner. We chose to dinghy over and tie up on a mooring line to go snorkeling. We saw a variety of coral and fish. The coral included brain, very common, fan and feather. There were a lot of black and neon blue fishes, particularly around the bottom of the dinghy when we first arrived, and some yellow and black striped fishes. Unfortunately we have not been able to find any underwater cameras to buy, therefore, no pictures of the plant and animal life underwater.



Sunday morning we set sail for Virgin Gorda. Again we were travelling against the wind and had to do a lot of tacking. We were able to make good speed at times – up to 5.3 knots at one point.


The highlight of the trip was having our picture taken by Yachtshots, BVI. It is a company based in Nanny Cay (in fact they were berthed next to us when we were there) that goes out and takes pictures of yachts sailing and then makes them available to purchase. If you would like to see them go to http://www.yachtshotsbvi.com/ and we would be listed under Mystic Journey for March 2, 2008.