About Webcams Caribbean
Webcams Caribbean is an independent website that brings together the live cams of the Caribbean in one place, with what you need to make sense of what you are watching: the local time, the weather and forecast for each place, and a short guide to every beach, town and lagoon. It began with the Mexican Caribbean, from Isla Mujeres to Bacalar, and adds the islands one at a time: first Puerto Rico, then Jamaica, the Dutch islands, the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Anguilla, and later the French islands, Antigua, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos, the Bay Islands of Honduras, the Dominican Republic and the Grenadines.
It exists because beach cams are scattered. Hotels put them on a page of their own website, camera networks spread them over several YouTube channels, and a travel company runs two on Akumal Bay. Seeing three beaches usually means opening half a dozen sites. Here they sit together, grouped by destination, with the same information next to each one.
Where the cams come from
Every cam belongs to whoever runs it: a hotel, a park, a travel company, a camera network such as Webcams de México or a research agency such as the U.S. Geological Survey. We show each one in its owner's player, under its name, with a credit and a link back on its page and on the page of its source. We do not re-encode anyone's video, hide their branding or claim their images as ours, and we leave out cams whose owners do not allow them to be shown elsewhere.
If you run a cam and want it added, changed or taken down, write to us at info@webcamscaribbean.com.
How we keep them working
A script checks every cam every 30 minutes and records whether it is on air. Cams that are working are shown first; one that stops is marked as off air, and when none of a place's cams is broadcasting, the page says so and offers the nearest ones that are live. A cam that is only paused stays on the site rather than being removed. The same script downloads the forecast for each place from MET Norway.
What we write ourselves
The guide on each page is written by hand: what the cams show, what makes the place special, when to watch, what is around it and how to visit. We leave out anything that goes stale, such as opening hours or prices, and we do not name individual cams in those guides, so they stay true when a camera changes.
The Spanish version of the site is written separately for readers in Mexico and Latin America, not translated word for word.
How we pay for it
The site is free to use. It may carry advertising, which pays for the hosting and the time behind it. Ads never decide which cams are included or where they appear, and we take no payment for listing a camera, a hotel or a destination.
Mistakes and corrections
A cam can be credited to the wrong owner, or a guide can stop matching what a camera shows. Write to info@webcamscaribbean.com and we will correct it. The legal details of the site are in the legal notice.
