Special to Sun Media Beachcombing is good on Guana Island's Monkey Point. But sailing was only a part of the adventure. Over the course of two weeks we visited more than a dozen islands.
Pirate lore is everywhere in the Virgin Islands.
Our closest encounter came when we explored uninhabited Norman Island, the probable location of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. We snorkelled those caves, moving from the sunlit outer shores back into the deliciously moody gloom. Virgin Gorda, the second largest of the British Virgins, features an extremely varied landscape. The southern part of the island is dead flat and the tip is littered with huge, tumbled granite boulders. The stones are piled into grottos, long tunnels and shapes like whales or dolphins.