Actually , we have used three different procedures to tour the baths.
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1. :Picked up an NP mooring, and dinked to the outside the swim area dinghy string line, tied up the dink, , back rolled into the water , and snorkeled or swam in. Time limit on the national park mooring was 1.5 hrs for the bare boat vessel.
2....At Leverick, we took a taxi to the baths....pretty cool. Had a nice narrative tour by the taxi driver, and stopped a couple times along the way to take photos of the view, and other bays. Grand and fun taxi ride. Made an appointed time for pick up, and we added on to the usual tour time so we could have a swim , lunch and libations up at the TOP O THE BATHS. Very cool, with killer views of the other islands. The taxi ride ( more like a tour ) from Leverick was outstanding and fun . Well worth it. Highly recommend as others have.
3. Another possible plan : VIRGIN GORDA YACHT HARBOR : .....Motored the bare boat into Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbor, a short distance from the Baths, paid for a slip, and tied up. Then we took a taxi to the Baths, and had the driver return at an appointed time. We used this procedure when all of the national park moorings were taken.
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Everything worked out easy, and all three were fun, so the whole day and the Baths experience worked out super.
The baths may have a different planned route , but what we did with the Taxi from Leverick, we brought our snorkel gear with us, and entered the baths from down at the beach, did our walk thru, and ended up at Devils Bay. Very beautiful, and then after
going thru the Baths Boulders and Grottos, , we snorkeled Devils Bay, and back then snorkeled outside of the Baths Boulders back to the beach.
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Be aware, if you wish to avoid the mobs of cruise shippers, visit the Baths on a non cruise ship day. The last time ( one of our Taxi trips ), we were at the baths, It was so mobbed with hundreds of cruise ship tourists that we could not even get thru them to enter the baths at the beach end, Well, that was BVI trip # 16, and for us, we have done the Baths tour many, many times prior. We keep a positive attitude, and that time, we passed on the non moving masses. Plan B. We tossed our T shirts up onto
a tree limb and just made a snorkel day out of it, We snorkeled outside the boulders to Devils Bay, relaxed a bit on the beautiful sandy beach, and then snorkeled back to the Baths Beach...
There we had a Red Stripe, relaxed and talked with one of the cruise ship's directors. She was telling us, that they put wrist bands of certain colors on their ships Baths Tour peoples wrists , so they can identify, and get them all back together at the end of the day, and return them to their proper cruise ship . We visited with the cruise ship director, we still had about a half an hour till our taxi pick up time. So, more fun, After retrieving out t shirts, we took our snorkel gear and made the climb back up to the
parking lot, and to the TOP O THE BATHS, for a pain killer and a swim in the view pool. It was a good day.
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If we had guests on board that had never toured the Baths, we would go on a day that was a non cruise ship day. The mobbing of the cruise ship people , plus the catamarans with many, people, and the other sail and motor vessesl, and the land based hotel guests, it was a mess at the Baths.
Just FYI during cruise ship season.....we would avoid cruise ship days. You all are totally free to give er go anytime you wish.
