What you can see on the Les Anses-d'Arlet cams
The live camera looks over the bay past a palm, to the fishing boats and yachts at anchor and the wooded cliffs of the headland. A second camera turns between the bay and the village, its roofs and the bell tower of its church, and replays the last 24 hours as a time-lapse.
Boats and cliffs in Les Anses-d'Arlet
From above the shore, past the fronds of a palm, this camera looks over the calm bay of Les Anses-d'Arlet: small fishing boats and yachts at anchor, the clear water over the sand and, across the bay, the wooded cliffs of the headland dropping to the sea.
The south-west coast of Martinique is sheltered, and this cam shows how calm the water is for swimming and snorkelling.
Les Anses-d'Arlet, bay and village
A second camera in Les Anses-d'Arlet turns between two views: the bay with its boats at anchor and the wooded headland, and the village itself, its roofs, its palms and the bell tower of its church by the sea. Windy replays the last 24 hours as a time-lapse.
Between the two views, it shows the village as much as the sea, which the main camera does not.
Turtles and coves
The commune takes in a string of coves along the coast: Grande Anse, a long beach where green turtles graze on the seagrass close to shore; Anse Dufour, a fishing cove; Anse Noire, with its black sand; and the village bay itself, with the church of Saint-Henri at the end of the pontoon. Many visitors come to snorkel with the turtles and over the reefs at the foot of the cliffs.
When to watch Les Anses-d'Arlet
Martinique keeps Atlantic Standard Time all year, four hours behind UTC. The village faces west, so the light is best in the afternoon and the sunset falls over the sea. The coast is sheltered from the trade wind; the hurricane season runs from June to November.
Nearby
Grande Anse and its beach are just over the hill to the north. The Diamond Rock, a steep islet that the British Navy once commissioned as a ship, rises off the coast a few kilometres south, near the town of Le Diamant.
Getting there
The village is about 45 minutes' drive from Fort-de-France and the airport. Cars drive on the right. In the bays, snorkellers keep their distance from the turtles and never touch or feed them.
