What you can see on the Virgin Gorda cam
The camera stands on Saba Rock, a tiny islet in the middle of North Sound, and looks across the anchorage. Yachts and catamarans lie on their moorings in water that runs from pale turquoise over the sand to deep blue, and the green hills of Virgin Gorda rise around the bay. It is the view for the wind and the light on the water, and for how full the anchorage is.
The anchorage seen from Saba Rock
From the islet of Saba Rock, a wide-angle camera looks out across North Sound. In the foreground, the edge of the dock; beyond it, the mooring field, with catamarans and yachts on their buoys, the water pale turquoise over the sand and deeper blue towards the hills of Virgin Gorda that close the bay.
Watch the surface: ripples mean a light breeze, whitecaps a fresh trade wind. The resort streams it through ipcamlive.
North Sound and Saba Rock
North Sound can only be reached by boat. Its shores hold resorts, marinas and beach bars that live from the yachts, among them the Bitter End Yacht Club, founded in the late 1960s and rebuilt after the hurricanes of 2017. Saba Rock, about an acre (0.4 ha) in size, carries a small resort, a restaurant and a dock, and its boats shuttle guests across the sound.
When to watch Virgin Gorda
The trade wind usually blows steady across the sound, strongest in winter, and the anchorage is busiest in the charter season, from December to April.
Nearby
The Baths, at the south-west tip of the island, are the most famous sight in the British Virgin Islands: giant granite boulders piled on the beach, with pools and passages between them. Spanish Town, the main settlement, has the ferry dock and the small airport.
Getting there
Ferries run from Tortola to Spanish Town, and small planes land at Virgin Gorda's airstrip. From Gun Creek and Leverick Bay, water taxis cross to Saba Rock and the resorts of the sound.
