Greetings from Tortola, BVI
We arrived in Tortola yesterday (on time!) after a low-drama, almost uneventful passage.
As gloriously uneventful as this passage was, there was one thing that was decided out of the ordinary. 
At around 4:00 yesterday morning we both had to be awake to begin navigating our approach to Tortola through the various out islands in the way. The sun came up around 6:45 and created some beautiful views, of which we have extensive pictures. We bisected Hans Lollick Island and Great Tobago Cay and entered the relatively shallow (150 feet or so) and protected “bay” (is that what you’d call it?) to the east of St. Thomas, the north of St. John, the west of Tortola and the southwest of Jost van Dyke.
At around 7:30 a.m., I was looking down at the chartplotter, doing some navigation work. Melissa was standing up on the port bench, looking out over the dodger.
All of the sudden, she said, “Whale …… Whale!”
“Whale?” I said, not really looking up. OK, dolphin, maybe…
“WHALE!!!” she nearly shreiked.
I jumped up. I had missed it. She pointed. “There it was, and it’s going that way.”
We followed the path. About 45 seconds later, the whale surfaced again. It was a full-grown humpback whale. It had to be 40-50 feet long. It didn’t breach, but it spouted air and we had a fantastic view of its back and fluke (which was totally out of the water). Pretty amazing stuff really.
We will be making lots of repairs here in Tortola, so it’s hard to know how much time we’ll have to really go see the area.