The Mine Shaft Café on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands offers beautiful sunset views while you dine out on their elevated deck with very good food, including above average BBQ and jerk chicken wraps with homemade potato salad and curly fries. Drinks are good too, including a not too sweet Rum Punch. Overall, a good value.
Plus, right as the sun sets, what seems like dozens of chickens gather under the big tree next to the deck and start a clumsy, noisy ascent up into the highest part of the tree.
What a spectacle. The hostess tells us they are wild and don't have a man made place to stay, so they roost up in the tree for the night to stay safe from predators. What must that place sound like at 5 AM?
Travel Tip submitted by jmq on the VIOL Forum.
