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The Baths, Virgin Gorda

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The Virgin Islands, VGThe Baths, Virgin Gorda
Type de fond
Tenue
Profondeur
6–12 m
Coordonnées18°25′48″ N, 64°26′35″ W

House-sized granite boulders tumbled along the shore forming tidal grottoes, pools and cathedral chambers where light comes through gaps in the rock and the water is knee-deep and glowing. You scramble and swim through the whole system to Devil's Bay. Nothing else in the Caribbean looks like it, this is granite in a limestone sea. The boulders are eroded remnants of a volcanic granite batholith that cooled underground 40+ million years ago, then weathered out. Sailors historically watered here, hence 'the Baths'. A BVI National Park since 1990. Anchorage: National Parks Trust day moorings only, no overnight. Exposed to northerly swell in winter, closes regularly. Hazards: No site-specific hazards noted, brief normally.

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