Tortola 2013

Hi friends! Chris and I are back from spending an amazing week on Tortola, BVI. We’ve been planning this trip for a year, and were especially excited to go back to the Virgin Islands after last year’s trip to St. John was affected by Tropical Storm/Hurricane Issac. I was also really disappointed that our side-trip to the BVIs was cancelled due to the weather last time, so this year we figured we’d go straight to the British side of the islands to see what it’s like, NOT during hurricane season. We rented a beautiful villa above Brewers Bay called The Refuge, and spent the week visiting Tortola’s beaches, eating and drinking in fun little beach bars, and we even took a day trip over to Virgin Gorda to explore The Baths. The weather was absolutely gorgeous all week long – it couldn’t have been more perfect. Here are a few photos of the house, our view, beautiful sunsets each night from various beach bars, and our snorkeling adventures at The Baths and Smugglers Cove (and if you make it to the end of the post, there’s a video!):

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So, I brought my SLR, a point-and-shoot, a GoPro Hero 2 AND my iPhone (overkill), but I actually ended up taking more video clips than still images if you can believe it! So (and please keep in mind that I’m a photographer and not really a videographer) here’s a short video I put together of our adventure:

Tortola 2013 from Susan Marks on Vimeo.

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6 responses to “Tortola 2013”

  1. Coelle Avatar
    Coelle

    I just looked at these and I love the video!!! SO CUTE!! And the goat..but who doesn’t love a goat? 🙂

  2. Susan Avatar

    Hehe, yay! Thanks! I know, right?! Random goats are awesome.

  3. […] originally didn’t include this photo with my Tortola blog post because I thought my neck looked weird, and because I’m wearing a rash guard yet […]

  4. […] The Baths on Virgin Gorda is an excursion not to be missed. It was one of the highlights of our Tortola trip! Huge granite boulders form caverns of sheltered pools along the edge of the beach, and you […]

  5. […] to explore when we’re there next year. And I shudder at the thought of the morning we were in Tortola when I awoke to the sight of a giant arachnid across the bedroom, hanging on the drapes. This thing […]

  6. […] originally didn’t include this photo with my Tortola blog post because I thought my neck looked weird, and because I’m wearing a rash guard yet […]

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