Want to buy an Island?

The BVI's is made up of about 60 islands and rocks. Not unlike Georgian Bay, some are owned by the government, some by individuals and some with shared ownership. How does an island get its name. When we left Deadman's Bay 2 weeks ago, we passed Dead Chest Island. It seems William Teach (Blackbeard) found some of his crew to be recalcitrant about their duties - maybe they didn't like murder, rape & plundering. So Blackbeard put them off on the island with a cutlass, a bottle of rum and no hope of getting ashore since they didn't know how to swim. When we were up in North Sound with Trev, we mentioned Necker Island which is owned by Richard Branson. This is where he chose to get married in 1989. This last time up into North Sound, we anchored off Mosquito Island. With the onshore wind, we certainly didn't find any mosquitoes on the water. We anchored behind the reef in 25 knots of wind, gusting to 35 knots. The reef did an excellent job of knocking down the seas. An anchorage is supposed to provide shelter from the seas and winds. We were 100% open to the direction of the wind and yes those gusts seemed very strong once it got dark. I should have put out a second anchor but did dive down to see if the anchor was set. Remember that story about dragging anchor at Foxies New Years Eve, well this time we didn't drag anchor and found the boat where we put it when we got up the next morning. Mosquito Island was supposed to have mooring balls and a restaurant - no mooring balls were present and the restaurant was abandoned. The place seemed a little run down. We heard that there was a new purchaser of the island - maybe he needed my financial help to get things back up and running. Richard Branson owns Necker Island, Virgin Airways, Virgin Mobile and this year Virgin Galactica (2010 space trips start). Apparently he is the new purchaser of Mosquito Island with grand plans for it for tourism development. I bet one of the first things he does is change the name. I'm going to start the rumour that Richard Branson's real plans are to buy the country. It only has 20,000 people. He probably has a worldwide work force that big and the name of the country fits perfectly with his business moniker.

We hope to get some blogs done while in a marina. Time for the trek to get provisions for Jeremey & Melissa's visit.