Daily or Weekly BVI forecast Starting in 2007 US citizen will
need passports  Reprinted from the BVI Welcome Tourist Guide
Vol. 36, No.1 - December / January 2006/07  The second of the
hugely popular Pirates of the Caribbean movie series released in
2006 has become a record breaking phenomenon. The movie begins
in a traditional manner with story and costume faithful to the
early 1700s. Soon though, it metamorphoses into a supernatural
satire complete with spectacular special effects, more weird and
wonderful than historically accurate. What many people may be
unaware of is that there is a real Dead Man's Chest, Dead Man's
Bay and a true story of a treasure chest full of pieces of eight
right here in the British Virgin Islands. Not only that, but
adventure storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson used many incidents
from the BVI's skullduggery to spice his famous novel, the
immortal Treasure Island. The Hollywood Pirates of the Caribbean
writers seem to have had no qualms in borrowing Stevenson's
famous refrain:  Fi