Diving the Dogs and more

We finally had to say goodbye to Bitter End for a while. But there is more of the BVI to see. And our sails are ready.

We motored to a group of islands off Virgin Gorda called the Dogs. We picked up a park mooring off George Dog, and broke out the scuba gear. We have 2 tanks and regulators, and 3 BC's. Cary and Tricia were going to dive. When Cary hopped in, she started to sink and bubbles were coming out of her BC where they shouldn't be. It seems a fitting is broken or missing an o-ring. Disappointing since we had them professionally inspected. There was also a bad o-ring on the second tank. We ended up snorkeling instead of diving. The coral was a lot healthier, and we saw more and a wider variety of fish.
(We later found out that you can take the yellow "dive site" mooring if a commercial dive boat isn't there. If they arrive when you are on it, you have to leave. Unless you have divers in the water, in which case they wait. This would have been better than the white "lunch" mooring we took, which was rolly and a swim from the good stuff to see.)

From the Dogs we motored to Marina Cay and anchored for the night. The protected area is mostly moorings, and we had to squeeze into the back. But we had a nice night at anchor for free. I believe this is the night Ginny and I scored 3,800 points in 1 hand of Canasta to crush Cary and Tricia in just two hands. (But Cary and I beat Mat and Ginny the next night, so we're even!). For reference, we are finding not many places are shallow enough to anchor, and some places it is forbidden to anchor because of the reefs. We take free when we can get it!