Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Dive BVI
(see 7)
Sleeping
2
Cooper Island Beach Club
A2
Cooper Island Hideaways
(see 2)
3
Guana Island Club
B1
4
Necker Island
B2
5
Peter Island Resort
A2
6
Pusser's Marina Cay Hotel
A2
7
Scrub Island Resort
B1
8
Seagrape Cottage
A2
Eating
Cooper Island Beach Club Restaurant
(see 2)
Deadman's Bay Bar & Grill
(see 5)
9
Pirates Bight
B1
Pusser's Marina Cay Restaurant & Bar
(see 6)
Tradewinds
(see 5)
William Thornton
(see 9)
Norman Island
It's all about buried treasure on
Norman Island (
www.normanisland.com
)
. Or so they
say. The hype surrounding the BVI's largest uninhabited landmass is almost too much to
bear.
Some chroniclers say Norman Island is the prototype for Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island
, and Stevenson based it on accounts his seafaring uncle told him while in
the region.
Documented history does indeed show a rich past on Norman. After the crew of the
Spanish galleon
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
mutinied in 1750, they buried several chests
of silver coins on the island. Locals from Tortola dug it up. But did they find it all?
Another story centers on the French pirate Normand, who left Anegada and settled here
(giving the island his name) with booty he'd ransacked from various ships. Rivals killed
Normand, but never found the loot. And so rumors of silver and gold persist.
You'll feel the pirate spirit all over the island. It lingers at
the Caves
off Treasure Point,
where Mr Fleming and the fictional Long John Silver allegedly hid their cache. These days
the Caves is a mega-popular snorkeling site, with a mob of sailboats, dinghies and swim-
