Anguilla / Watersports

Most of the hotels have some equipment for you to use, snorkelling gear, kayaks and small sailboats, but the most active beach is Shoal Bay (East) where you will find outlets that will hire you equipment and beach paraphernalia such as umbrellas and floats.

For a general operator in Shoal Bay try Skyline Beach Rentals.

Scuba Diving

Please see our Special Interest - Scuba section.

Snorkelling in Anguilla

Snorkels and fins are available at most hotels, dive shops, on most charters and at some beachfront restaurants. The best snorkelling beaches include Shoal Bay East and Little Bay (you can get a boat from Crocus Bay), but wherever there are cliffs and offshore rocks you will find fish collecting.

Anguilla Fishing / Sport fishing

There are plenty of fishermen who go out from Anguilla to fish for the restaurants and hotels and you may want to go off with them in the hunt for wahoo, marlin, tuna, swordfish, snapper, mahi-mahi, yellow fin and black fin tuna. If you want to buy the fresh fish as it comes in, then you can go to Anguilla Fisheries in George Hill, where the catch is brought in in the late afternoon. Boat trips cost around US$750 for a full day and US$450 for a half day, fishing for four people, eats & drinks included.

We recommend you try:

Dean Carty - based at Anguilla Fisheries in George Hill.

Garfield Tours - the yacht Gotcha,  friendly staff.

Johnno, Johnno's Restaurant - Johnno goes out to catch fish for his restaurant in Sandy Ground.

Anguilla Kitesurfing and Windsurfing

For windsurfing you are restricted to the hotels as there is nobody with equipment for hire. Very adventurous windsurfers will find good winds off the northeast of the island at Captains Bay. Kitesurfing has not yet come to Anguilla, but it extremely popular on St. Martin, just a short ferry ride away.