VACATION IN VIRGIN GORDA
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Tuesday, January 7: Savannah Bay
Tuesday morning dawned cloudy, but not threatening rain. I had heard a short period of heavy rain overnight, but it appeared to be over and done with. I got up before Jenny, and went out on my morning run. I went up to the Baths, turned around , came back and down to the GSB offices, and then back to Palm Cottage. I figured that to be somewhere around my usual one mile, based upon how long it took me. (About 12‑1/2 minutes.) I took an unsatisfyingly short shower, per instruction, and felt ready to face the day.
After breakfast, neither of us was feeling very ambitious, so after tending to some email correspondence, we strolled down to the GSB beach . I tried a little swimming, but again felt less than in control on the rough water, so I settled for just hanging out on a beach chair, and enjoying my recorded book and my pleasant surroundings (Photo #60). I idly contemplated on the various watercraft anchored offshore (Photo #61), and felt smugly complacent about having no desire to own one.
But I did want to get some swimming in, so in the afternoon we drove out to Savannah Bay, where there was a public beach. Savannah Bay is a broad and shallow body of water (Photo #62), so there is very little wave action. That was much more pleasant for me, and I frolicked a while in the warm water. We had the place almost completely to ourselves. To give you some sort of impression of the beach, I took slow, panoramic video of the bay (Video #63). Although it was a public beach, here were no facilities such as bathrooms or changing rooms. But it was so sparsely populated that I felt no qualms in changing into and out of my bathing trunks shielded only by the open car door.