Anguilla - Shoal Bay Scuba
Have been going to Anguilla for 5+ years. The beaches are superb, the dining is great and the Island pace is very low key. Diving in Anguilla is not the greatest however there are several (5) wrecks for exploring. My favorite dive spot is Little Bay - it is a shallow dive but plenty of marine life. The Bay is protected and as a result you see a lot of young fish - a nursery per se. I have only dived in April/May - conditions are mostly relaxed, little to no currents and mostly no swells. Water temperature is typically 82. Typical marine life for the Caribbean - Angels, lobsters, crabs, eels, rays, bleenies, crayfish, turtles, octopus, ...and past few years, lionfish. Several sites have nice soft and hard corals. Matthew (dive operator) and his crew at Shoal Bay Scuba are super helpful. We discovered Anguilla when we took a day trip from St Martin about 7 years ago. It is a 40 minute ferry ride between the Islands. Ferries leave early enough that you could stay in St Martin and do a double tank dive in Anguilla and have some time to explore the Island.
