PETER ISLAND RESORT

1015 hours February 8, 2015, Great Harbour, Peter Island, BVI: We picked up a mooring tucked back into the south east corner of Great Harbour on Peter Island.

The primary attraction on Peter Island is the Peter Island Resort. We spent most of the day strolling through the Resort's Deadman's Bay Beach and it's other amenities. This high end resort can accommodate 50 guests and they ask that men wear a coat and tie to dine in their Tradewinds  Restaurant with its service with french silverware and Italian crystal in their stone walled dinning room.

Their Deadman's Beach is crescent shaped with white power sand, and reasonably dense palm trees. Behind the beach is a paved path for walking and golf carts. Both the steep hill side behind, and median between the beach and the golf cart and pedestrian path, are lushly landscaped with tropical hedges and colorful plants. There is an open air restaurant and bar in the center of the beach with service to wooden chase lounges with upholstered cushions under shade structures, along the beach. At the west end of the Beach, resort suites opened directly on the sand.

At the east end the crescent shaped Resort Beach is interrupted about two thirds of the way around the cove,  that creates the Bay, with an out cropping of rocks. Beyond the rock out cropping at the far east end of the cove is a second beach designated for cruisers. As we walked onto this second beach, the crew of a chartered 185 ft super yacht, anchored in the cove, was setting up a tent over twelve captains chairs and a long table, for a late lunch service. Sitting in front were the charterers on portable beach chairs and chase lounges with two small puppies that looked like Jackie. After the two stopped barking Jackie was quick to make new friends, chasing the other two puppies and being chased in circles, as they played. Along with the jet skies, kayaks, and a small sail boat tethered behind the super yacht were the two devices  they had on the beach, that you laid on to power you through and under the water. 

            As we were leaving the "Cruisers Beach" we saw a fleet of Hobie 16 catamarans with matching multicolored sails 
            landing at the north east corner of the beach. This was the same fleet we had seen the night before on the beach     
            at the Blight on Normans Island where they had erected tents on top of their trampolines.   

At happy hour we came back to the Resort's Deadman's Bay Beach Bar for drinks and then wandered back over the hill to the Resorts main buildings in Sprat Bay which is their private harbor. From here they ferry their guests back and forth to Road Town on Tortola. They also have some limited docking and three moorings in this private Harbor they rent for overnight stays. When we came down the hill into Sprat Bay we saw Jackie's new super yacht friends had backed into the Harbor, with an anchor forward, tiring up to the Resort's one large dock. We ran into the "parents" of Jackie's friends while touring the open air lobby, pool area, the entry to the Tradewinds Restaurant and the gift shop, all with elegant architecture and interior design.

 In all, Peter Island Resort is first class.