What you can see on the Negril cam
The camera looks out from the beach of a seaside hotel on Long Bay, over its loungers and the shade of its trees, along the pale sand to the clear, shallow water and the low green coast in the distance. Through the day it shows the colour of the sea, the swimmers and the people walking along the shore, the boats offshore and the weather coming in from the west; in the late afternoon, the light of the sunset.
Seven Mile Beach from CocoLaPalm
From the beachfront of a hotel on Long Bay, this camera gives a wide, panoramic view along Seven Mile Beach: the loungers and the shade of the trees in the foreground, then the long curve of pale sand, the clear, shallow water where people swim and wade, and the low green coast that closes the bay in the distance.
It shows the colour of the sea and the clouds over Negril through the day, how busy the beach is and, in the late afternoon, the light of the sun going down over the sea.
Seven Mile Beach
Negril's beach is known as Seven Mile Beach, and it is made of two bays: Bloody Bay in the north, lined with large all-inclusive resorts, and Long Bay in the south, where smaller, family-run hotels, bars and vendors share the sand. Behind the beach lies the Great Morass, a wide wetland crossed by the Negril River; in front of it, the reefs and the sea grass are protected by the Negril Marine Park, declared in 1998.
When to watch Negril
Jamaica keeps Eastern Standard Time all year, five hours behind UTC, with no daylight saving time. Negril faces west, so the sun goes down over the sea in front of the beach, the favourite hour to watch it. The driest months run from about December to April; the rains come mostly between May and November, which is also the hurricane season, from June to November.
Around Negril
South of downtown, the West End road runs along cliffs above very clear water, with spots for snorkelling and for jumping into the sea from the rocks, and the Negril Lighthouse, built in 1894, near the westernmost point of the island. Inland, the trails of the Royal Palm Reserve cross the wetland behind the beach.
Getting to Negril
Negril is about 80 km (50 miles) from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, an hour and a half or more by road along the north coast. Jamaicans drive on the left.
