Virgin Gorda’s Unique Baths National Park in the Virgin Islands

A respected Saint Louis entrepreneur, Craig Nowotny has served as general manager with Arthur Wright and Associates and guided client-focused recruiting activities since the late 1980s. Passionate about boating, Craig Nowotny is a longtime yachtsman who has taken trips from Florida to Caribbean destinations such as the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands. 

Among the popular boating spots are St. John and St. Thomas, with Tortola and Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands offering marinas and active yacht clubs. Virgin Gorda is also home to The Baths National Park, which features dramatic granite boulders along the edge of sandy beach. These create sheltered sea pools and an ecosystem for coastal marine life.

As large as forty feet across, these boulders originated from molten rock that seeped upward through volcanic rock layers. Not quite reaching the surface of the existing volcanic layer, the rock gradually cooled, which created a hard layer of crystalline granite. The blocks were exposed over the millennia as the softer volcanic rock was lost to erosion, and today the boulders are sea-weathered into distinctive rounded shapes.