The Islands (continued)

Jost Van Dyke

• Great Harbor - good overnight anchorage; restaurants. Looks like a fantasy tropical island, a long horseshoe shaped white sand beach, fringed by palms and dotted with beach restaurants and bars. Population 300, very friendly with lots of stories to tell.
• Great Tobago - 3 miles W of JVD. Tiny cove for one or two boats. Uninhabited; settled weather lunch stop only; small beach is like a scene out of a private dream; the entire island reeks of bay rum.
• Green Cay - Excellent beach and snorkeling.
• Little Harbor - good overnight anchorage; restaurants; some provisions; nightlife on shore.
• Sandy Cay - Excellent beach; nature walk, snorkeling on N side if seas calm.
• White Bay - excellent beach, good snorkeling, sheltered and surrounded by a coral reef; good day time stop; restaurant.

Little Jost Van Dyke

• Good snorkeling and beach on S side.

Mosquito Island (North Sound)

• Nice to explore - pristine; well marked hiking trails, four isolated private beaches, bush plants and trees.
• A storybook tropical island; ultimate island escape.
• Long Beach reef is magnificent and encloses lots of fish and coral. Yachties can eat at the restaurant right on the waterfront - gourmet.
• Good overnight anchorage - breezy and bug free.
• Good snorkeling W of Anguilla Pt. and around Mosquito Rock.

Norman Island

• Norman has no civilization but is pretty and picturesque; Caves on NW side a great lunch stop and exploring.
• Uninhabited except for converted floating bar restaurant 1910 boat William Thornton anchored in Bight- call VHF channel 16.
• Be careful of temperamental wild cattle.
• The Bight often has many boats but within dinghy distance are two excellent and almost deserted anchorage's - Miner/Carstarphen Cove on NW tip of Norman- a beautiful anchorage but no sand beach; and Privateer Bay - S of Caves
• Benures Bay - N side of Norman; good anchorage when wind out of S; pristine snorkeling on W end; swim in crystal clear water.
• The Caves
  • Hours of fun for snorkelers, good for underwater photos; large variety of subjects - schools of dwarf herring or fry; take uw flashlight and dinghy anchor.
  • Water about 4 feet deep; S most cave has rounded rock bottom to stand on.
  • Cave 2 - deep indentation into rock face.
  • Cave 3 extends 80 feet into island.
  • Cave 4 entrance is above water line, must climb.
  • Outside caves - reef and fish.
  • For good swimmers snorkel from Bight side of Treasure Pt., S to Caves, along ledge 150 feet off shore at Privateer Bay, and out to the SW tip of Privateer Bay. Watch for Hawksbill turtles and eagle rays in grassy areas of this bay.
  • Easy to spend a half or full day here.
• The Indians (Pelican Island)
  • Four jagged pinnacles W of Pelican Island on N side of Norman.
  • E of Indians is clear shallow area good for snorkeling with fish and coral.
  • Good snorkeling and diving.
  • Everything for snorkeler - brain , finger, and star coral; elkhorn corals are abundant as are gorgonians and fans..
  • National Park moorings.
  • Current if wind is strong.
• Little Harbor - protected.
• Privateer Bay - excellent anchorage in summer (SE wind). Good snorkeling and underwater spelunking at Caravel Rock.

  

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