Wildlife Photography Hides in British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands — 60-odd islands and cays clustered around the Sir Francis Drake Channel east of Puerto Rico — offer a combination of accessible sea turtle snorkelling, a self-sustaining flamingo colony on Anegada, and some of the eastern Caribbean's most intact reef systems, all within a sailing and yachting infrastructure that provides uniquely flexible wildlife access. Anegada, the BVI's only flat coral island, is the archipelago's wildlife centrepiece: the BVI Conservation Society's reintroduced Greater Flamingo colony (60–80 birds) roosts at Flamingo Pond, where a dedicated blind permits pre-dawn approach; Horseshoe Reef extending 24 kilometres offshore is one of the Caribbean's fourth-largest barrier reefs, with Nassau Grouper in densities rarely seen elsewhere and Hawksbill Sea Turtle nesting on Anegada's north beaches. Norman Island — the alleged inspiration for Treasure Island — provides some of the Caribbean's most reliable cave turtle photography, with Hawksbill Turtles resting in the sea caves known as The Caves in the morning light. The BVI Conservation Society monitors sea turtle nesting at multiple sites and runs participatory excursions. Dead Chest Island and Fallen Jerusalem National Park harbour Brown Booby and White-tailed Tropicbird seabird colonies.