 This is post 2 from Everyone's Travel Club's trip to the Virgin Islands! In post 1 we landed on St. Thomas, woke up the next day and ferried to Virgin Gorda. We set out to kayak around one of the prettiest, but not the best in our book (more on that later), bays on the island. We threw the inflatable kayak and gear brought from Seattle in the truck and took off to Savannah Bay. Savannah Bay is minutes from downtown Spanish Town (the locals call town 'the Valley'). The road once you get really close looks a little washed out, see the pic below, but there are a few parking spots close to the beach once you pull in.  It's not that deep   The beach was pretty empty while we were there. There always seemed to be charter dive boats anchored out past the reefs. They had large groups of high schoolers (a.k.a. no booze). They were respectful, quiet (mostly underwater the whole time), and too young and supervised to get crazy! We kayaked about a half an hour in either direction, checked out Pond, Little Dix, and Mahoe Bays nearby, snorkeled, and chilled by the beach. ~Paul, Jon, Ann -ETC P.S. As I type this (late July) it is 53 degrees and raining back home in Seattle.         
4 Comments
Ann M. Carroll
7/26/2011 01:31:06 am
If you look on your map you can see the road into Trunk Bay.
Debbie
7/13/2015 08:08:22 am
Are you in a Helio II? Did you worry about punctures on rocks and reefs in the Caribbean? Have you tried other Innova kayaks? I don't know which to buy for similar use around ocean shores or lakes. I heard the Safari and Sunny are good too, but don't know a lot about comparisons.
Debbie, Yep this is our Helios 2. Innova is very strong, like a Zodiac raft, so punctures are not a huge problem. The Virgin Islands and the Pacific Northwest offer deep channels and predictable water depth (i.e. when you paddle away from shore it gets deeper). We've actually run into more shallow/oyster beds in Key West and here in North Carolina more recently. The Innova's get the job done. People always comment here when they see us getting ready to paddle, and I always say, "This kayak isn't from Wal-Mart"...:)
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