An ‘eccentric’ Caribbean island
Virgin Gorda is an “eccentric” little island paradise where hardly anything happens, said K.C. Summers in The Miami Herald. The third largest of the British Virgin Islands, it lies 60 miles east of Puerto Rico and has “no stop lights, no traffic jams, no casinos, no night life.” For that matter, Spanish Town, the capital, isn’t much of a town. Yet all those factors simply mean that Virgin Gorda—the name translates as “Fat Virgin”—is a genuine “find.” Only about 10 miles long, the island is divided into the hilly North Sound and the “Valley,” where beaches stretch along the southwestern coast. The furniture in our room at the Fischer’s Cove Beach Hotel “was a bit worn.” But we could go swimming almost right outside our front door and snorkeling was just steps away. The island’s “most famous landmark” is the Baths, a collection of “menacing” granite boulders that form scenic grottoes opening to the sea.
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