Setting Point
Pomato Point
Cow Wreck Beach
Loblolly Bay
Keel Point
Snorkel Horseshoe Reef’s coral gardens and shipwrecks
Watch flamingos wade the western salt ponds
Feast on grilled lobster at a beach bar
Visit the Fort Worth Zoo’s Rock Iguana Headstart facility
Wade the sandbar off Loblolly Bay’s east end
The Settlement
Flamingo Pond
Horseshoe Reef
Anegada Lighthouse
Cow Wreck Beach
December through April brings the calmest seas for the crossing through Horseshoe Reef’s buoyed channel, which most captains only attempt in daylight with good overhead sun for reading the coral heads. Hurricane season runs June through November, and while direct hits are rare, the shallow approach becomes riskier in any swell. Flamingo sightings at the salt ponds are good year-round, though early morning visits in the cooler months tend to be most reliable.
Anegada has a small airstrip, Captain Auguste George Airport, used mainly for private and charter flights rather than scheduled commercial service. Most charter guests instead sail in, crossing from Virgin Gorda or Tortola through a marked channel in Horseshoe Reef, a passage of roughly fifteen to twenty nautical miles that captains time carefully around light and weather. A handful of day-trip ferries and small planes also run from Tortola for guests joining a yacht already anchored there.
Setting Point, on the island’s south shore near the Anegada Reef Hotel, is the main anchorage and the usual entry point through the reef, with moorings and space to anchor in shallow, sandy holding. Pomato Point, a mile west, offers a quieter alternative for boats with a shallower draught. Deeper-draught yachts often stay away from the shore entirely, anchoring further out and tendering in for lobster dinners and reef trips.
One night is typical, since Anegada’s charm lies in its beaches and reef rather than a long list of sights, and the approach through Horseshoe Reef limits how often captains want to make the crossing. Guests who arrive early can fit in a full day of beach-hopping between Loblolly Bay and Cow Wreck Beach, an evening of grilled lobster, and a morning look for flamingos before heading back to Virgin Gorda or Tortola.
Anegada is the only inhabited British Virgin Island built from coral and limestone rather than volcanic rock, which is why it sits almost flat, its highest point barely nine metres above sea level, instead of rising into green peaks like Tortola or Virgin Gorda. That flatness, combined with the surrounding Horseshoe Reef, has wrecked ships for three centuries and kept the island sparsely visited, giving it a quieter, more remote character than its mountainous neighbours.
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