This relaxing patch offers a long beach fringed by palm trees, with activities such as volleyball, beach Olympics, and snorkeling. The area adjacent to the tender dock is the busiest spot (as is true on all the islands), but if you walk down the beach a bit you’ll get a quieter, more private experience, even if the coastline does get a little rocky as you get farther out from the dock. Alive trees have been made part of the decoration with their green canopy flowing over the roof and their trunks inside of the restaurant. Extreme Sports Cafe Beach Huts offers basic accommodation in rooms located within a courtyard under our Seagrape trees on the beach of the bay. A veranda looking out onto a sandy courtyard accesses them and each one has hammock hanging outside.

Mouth watering food found around every corner whether it be fine dining or beach-hut fish sandwiches. Valda and Sherleene spoiled us each day with coming home to a spotless place just to start our fun all over again. Just find a path between the tourist palaces and walk out to claim your chunk of sand. Despite its tiny size, Anguilla offers some of the world’s best stretches of sand and they have made the island a haven for Hollywood names. What may interest the paparazzo in you is that they’re all public beaches.

There are a couple of coral reefs literally right off the beach, and the water was very clear, and we could see tons of fish. The snorkeling and diving gear was of very high quality. Just bring a little bread crumbs out to the reef (the best we went to was “Cemetary Reef”) and the fish swarm all over you. We took a day sail and snorkeling trip with Red Sail Sports ($ 65 US per person including lunch and equipment). The calm waters of the island are protected behind a reef that runs the length of the north side of Middle Caicos. Turning to the left shows the long stretching beach and beautiful Caribbean sky.

Belize also boasts one of the world’s longest barrier reefs, crystal-clear Caribbean water and some dazzling underwater life. I suggest you consider the largest of these, Ambergris Caye, the selfsame ‘La Isla Bonita’ that Madonna crooned about in the late 1980s. Normally you can see an intriguing myriad of multicolored fish and aquatic life in these cenotes and reefs which stretch all the way from Cancun down to Belize. Several eco-attractions such as Xel-Ha and Xcaret (billed as the large aquarium theme parks in the world) provide tourists with opportunities to mingle with nature in a controlled setting. We’ve always loved Big Reef Bay, visiting it many times long before a spa came to be on this special spot. We both thought that the lovely pool and gardens enhanced the vista even more so.

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