What you can see on the Rendezvous Bay cams
The cams look from villa terraces high on the hills. One looks down over the shrubs to the turquoise shallows of the bay, a long green point and the open Caribbean beyond; another, framed by frangipani and bougainvillea, looks across the deep blue water of Hart Bay to the point and the hills of the south shore; a third, on the ridge, looks over the wooded hills to the sheltered water of Fish Bay. On clear days St Croix shows on the horizon to the south.
Turquoise shallows of Rendezvous Bay
From a villa terrace high on the hill, this camera looks down over the shrubs and treetops to the curve of Rendezvous Bay: turquoise water over sand close in, darker patches of reef and seagrass further out, a long green point on the left and the open Caribbean stretching to the horizon.
The bay faces south, so it shows the swells that reach the south shore and the light changing over the water from morning to sunset.
Flowers over Hart Bay
From the garden of a large villa above Hart and Rendezvous Bays, this camera looks through frangipani and pink bougainvillea across the deep blue water to a long, low point and the hills of St John's south shore folding away to the east.
The flowers in the foreground and the wide bay behind make it one of the most colourful views of the island.
Fish Bay and Rendezvous Point
From a villa on the ridge above the south shore, this camera looks over wooded hillsides dotted with villas to Fish Bay, a sheltered bay fringed with mangroves at its head, and the long point of Rendezvous Point beyond, with the open sea on the right.
Fish Bay is one of the calmest bays on the island, a nursery for young fish and turtles among the mangroves; the cam shows its still water and the clouds building over the hills.
The quiet side of St John
The south shore is drier and quieter than the north, with fewer roads and almost no shops: villas, small coves and the coral reefs that make the south coast a favourite for snorkelling from the shore. The bays face south, into the open Caribbean, so they catch the swells from the south in summer and stay calmer when north swells hit the other side of the island in winter.
When to watch Rendezvous Bay
St John keeps Atlantic Standard Time all year, four hours behind UTC. The bays face south, so the light is good all day. The hurricane season runs from June to November.
Nearby
Cruz Bay, the island's main town, is about ten minutes' drive to the north-west. Fish Bay, just east of Ditleff Point, is a sheltered mangrove bay, and Chocolate Hole and Great Cruz Bay lie to the west, on the way to town.
Getting there
The bay is reached by the road that runs south from Cruz Bay towards Fish Bay. Most of the shore is private villas; the small beaches are public, but access to them is limited. Cars drive on the left.
