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Reader: I Took A Fabulous Caribbean Trip With My Best Friend Of 30 Years
(See photos in Travels With Tropical Breeze)
To the Editor:
With my best friend of 30 years, Michele Duke of Philadelphia, PA, I went off to a fabulous island in the British Virgin Islands this fall. She won this trip earlier this year and asked me to go with her. The place is called Peter Island, South of Tortola, which is East of St. Thomas. It took two planes, a taxi ride and a ferry trip to get to this hidden gem in the Caribbean.
The entire island is Peter Island Resort. We stayed in a beach front junior suite, complete with a glass enclosed shower with two showerheads and a bubble bath made for two. Each suite had its own hammock, two teak loungers and a cafe sitting area. We had a small fridge, where steps away outside was a ice chest filled with fresh ice. Of course I had to bring the Tropical Breeze with me and showed it all the wonderful sights I had on my vacation. It got to see the beautiful tile work of the swimming pool, where the sun made exquisite patterns shining through the water. I took it sailing with Michele on a Hobie Cat off the coast of Deadman’s Beach. It was a perfect day for sailing, although the winds weren’t right to fly a hull. I took a snorkeling trip out to a place called the Coral Gardens, where the reef was alive with nurse sharks, parrot fish, sea fans in lavender, brain coral in brilliant white, and stag horns in a mustard color. I tried to I get it (Tropical Breeze) to see all the sea life, but it wasn’t cooperating. So I got a picture off the stern of the dive boat.
The cuisine at this 5-star resort with only 52 rooms was excellent. Every morning I had a two egg omelet filled with yellow, red, green peppers, red, yellow, white onions, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, hashbrowns and white and yellow cheese. By the time it was done, it was half the size of a dinner plate! For the dinners I had pan seared diver scallops with mango salsa, crispy noodles, with sweet chili oil and cilantro. Beef tenderloin, with three potato hash, spinach demi-glace truffle butters, artichoke dip, baby artichoke heads, garlic spinach, three cheeses baked in a sour dough bread bowl. OUTSTANDING!
Walking to the meals every day, through the tropical gardens was fantastic. I saw rubber vines, date, foxtail, cardboard, pygmy, areca palm trees, pomegranate bushes from Southeast Asia, white bird of paradise from Africa, xanadu from Brazil. The gardens were just beautiful.
And don’t forget the spa! Within the 10,000 sq. ft. spa, you can have facials, body scrubs, massages and wraps, manicures and Thalasso mud bowls. And if that doesn’t make you feel pampered there’s always the custom designed, raised-disc infinity pool and the ocean-sided Jacuzzi on the outskirts of the Tranquility Gardens.
Two hours before we had to leave paradise, the Tropical Breeze floated around on a raft in the deep waters. The sun was shining, the air was 85° the water was 81° and Michele was telling us it was time to go home.
When I arrived back home on November 4, our temp was 66°, but poor Michele’s temp in Philadelphia was 29°. So if you want to dream a little and visit paradise for a while, check out their web site peterislandresort.com This is one vacation I will think about all the years to come.
Thanks Michele!
Nancy Eggert
Dunedin
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