Water conditions are excellent today with no sargassum detected and clear water. A good day to be on the beach.
December through May for the calmest conditions. The west-facing aspect means gentle afternoon swells but generally swimmable water year-round. Sargassum risk is very low.
Long white sand, calm-to-light surf, excellent swimming, and one of the best beach bar dining scenes in the Caribbean. Stunning sunsets every evening. A short taxi from The Valley.
Anguilla's history is shaped by an extraordinary act of resistance: in 1967, just days after the island was made part of a new federation with St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguillans revolted, expelled the St. Kitts police force, and declared their own independence in what may be history's most gentle revolution. The 'Anguilla Revolution' involved no deaths and resulted in the island eventually becoming a British Overseas Territory, the status it holds today. Meads Bay, on the island's northwest coast, looks toward the sunset over a sea that Arawak and Carib peoples navigated for 2,000 years before Columbus arrived in 1493. The island's near-total lack of rivers made large-scale agriculture impossible, which paradoxically protected it from the plantation economy that scarred much of the Caribbean: and helps explain its exceptionally uncrowded beaches today.
"Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.": Psalm 46:2Live seaweed levels, surf, water quality and hotel deals — updated daily. Free.
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