Jost Van Dyke, a Quiet Island
At the very moment the motorboat arrives to the island of Jost Van Dyke, from Soper’s Hole, passengers go down quickly into the Great Harbor streets. All but tourists, stopping to watch the beauty around them. It seems the time stands still: some houses at the harbor and green hills under the hot sun. In fact, electricity didn’t arrive until 1991 few people standing next to the customhouse, and goats grazing freely at the graveyard. In a red color signal you can read water-taxi, next to a phone number. What do people do on this island? Some, like Foxy, the owner of a beach bar, have become a tale narrator.

The water-taxi will take you west to the White Harbor, where you will have to take your shoes off, and wash your feet, if you want to go to the sandy beach. Don’t worry if your pants or dress get wet, because they will dry fast, while you rest in a hammock under the shades of palm trees at the Soggy Dollar Bar. Every day here seems Sunday. The atmosphere is so romantic, reminding you of a postcard: palm trees, fine sand, beautiful hills; and all this, where, it is said, was created a rum based sedative called pusser’s painkiller.

Treasure Island
The little islands south of the Sir Francis Drake channel were used as refuge by lots of pirates, and where the inspiration, in the XIX century, of romantic authors like Robert Louis Stevenson (l850-l894). It seems the Scottish writer and poet, located his novel, Treasure Island, at the island of Norman. From then on, many people have tried to find the treasure without luck; the only treasures of the island are down in the depths of the sea: the colorful fishes swimming around the reefs around a harbor named The Bight: in the caves along the rocky western coast, only accessible by sea, which are paradise for expert divers. When you come out of the water to take air, at The Bight, you’ll also find, a place to taste Caribbean food. It’s the William Thornton II, a copy of an ancient Baltic commercial ship. Around the island of Pelican, there are more submarine caves and reefs, where divers and photographers can spend some marvelous time. There are also interesting rock pinnacles called The Indians.

No matter its name, Deadman’s Bay in Peter Island is one of the most romantic beaches in the world. You’ll find hard to resist the temptation of spending some hours in this idyllic place with palm trees, white sand and blue water. The owners of the tourism center of the island have tried, successfully, to maintain the ecological balance. At the restaurant next to the beach, you can taste some of the special dishes prepared by the chef of Alson Pont, winner of a prestigious tournament of Caribbean food.

With a view of Dead Chest, where according to legend, pirate Black bear, left fifteen dying sailors, the boats loaded with divers, leave towards the buoys around the Marine Park of Rhone. In 1867, a hurricane wrecked the Rhone, a Royal British Mail ship that sunk in front of the west coast of the island of Salt. Their inhabitants succeeded rescuing a passenger and twenty crewmen. As reward, Queen Victoria granted them the property rights of the island, having to pay a symbolic fee of one pound of salt yearly.