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One of the highlights of a trip to the BVI is a visit to The Baths – a granite boulder playground at the edge of the sea. We\u2019ve visited several times before by boat, but for this trip we decided to go overland by taxi from Leverick Bay to see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Into Ivan\u2019s taxi and here we go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We headed up from Leverick Bay almost to Gorda Peak and then down the spine of the island, with amazing views to the north and south. At its narrowest, the island is only about 1\/2 mile wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Southern bays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Northern bays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Virgin Gorda International Airport \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Baths (short for Batholiths) were formed around 70M years ago when hot lava bubbles forced their way up into volcanic layers that formed the floor of the ocean. Those layers later eroded to reveal large granite boulders created by the cooled lava bubbles. Wind and waves then rounded any sharp edges leading to what we see today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The path over the hill to Devils Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the top.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Devil\u2019s Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Caves – a path under, over and between the boulders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a few hours of swimming, snorkeling and scrambling, we headed back up island by way of Hog Heaven – North Sound\u2019s BBQ in the sky. Ribs, beer and an amazing view were the perfect way to end the day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 180 degree view of North Sound. The little island in the back center is Richard Branson\u2019s private estate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A long way down to our boat in Leverick Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of a trip to the BVI is a visit to The Baths – a granite boulder playground at the edge of the sea. We\u2019ve visited several times before by boat, but for this trip we decided to go overland by taxi from Leverick Bay to see them. We headed up from … Continue reading “Overland to The Baths”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKeQ3-9M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}