Description: Rising up like green gemstones out of the sparkling deep blue sea, you immediately know why the British Virgin Islands are known as the "cruising capital of the Caribbean." Where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic, there's a chain of sixty islands called the British Virgin Islands. With hundreds of secret bays and hidden coves, they've been a haven for seafarers for centuries. Columbus visited and named the islands. After Columbus came the adventurers, the pirates, and the buccaneers who took refuge in the protected waters and kept guard from secluded mountain look-outs and who preyed on the Spanish galleons bound for Europe with In can gold. Some say they left buried treasure that is still there.