Active Caribbean
As
you might expect, the Caribbean region offers a wealth of sports and leisure
facilites. All sorts of watersports are widely available including scuba
diving, snorkelling, fishing, sailing and windsurfing. Tennis, golf and
horseriding is available on the islands with a developed tourist industry
and there are many good walks to be had.
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Sunsail have two Clubs in the Caribbean, one in Colonna in
Antigua and Beachcomber, a new one opening this year, in St Thomas in the US
Virgin Islands. Both offer a full range of watersports and high quality
villa accommodation, restaurants and kids' clubs for children from as young
as 4 months. For more details visit www.sunsail.com
Island hopping tours are very popular with many travellers to the region.
Sunsail provide tours around the Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands and
offer a wide choice of sailing options including flotilla, bareboat,
skippered charter and share a yacht. They also provide
training courses from beginner level upwards. Visit their website at
www.sunsail.com
for more details.
The Moorings also
offers a number of different ways to see the Caribbean by boat.
You can choose to: skipper your own boat, sail with captain and crew, or
sail in a flotilla. The flotilla programme has proved so popular
that 13 departures are planned in the BVI during 2001. Visit www.moorings.com
to explore all the options.
Bubbles Galore in Barbados offer a variety of organised
scuba dives including a number of local shipwrecks and Barbados' own barrier reefs. They
also offer a number of different training courses from beginner level
through to advanced, run by highly qualified and experienced instructors. To
see more visit www.bubbles@caribsurf.com
Paradise Watersports in St John, Virgin Islands, also offers a number of
dives with high quality boats and equipment and very experienced staff.
Boats leave from the dock at Caneel Bay resort.
More details from www.paradisevi.com
The Caribbean is regarded by many as one of the world's most stunning
sailing grounds, with virtually year round balmy temperatures and cooling
tradewinds, it provides one the most spectacular yet safest sailing
destinations. Boat hire is easily available throughout the region and can be
arranged locally or in advance through your hotel. For travellers to the
Virgin Islands, take a look at www.caribbeanvilla.com/boatinfo.html
or www.caribbean-adventures.com
for an idea of what's on offer.
www.caribseasports.com
based in Curacao, Antilla, this company offer the chance to try out jetskiing,
kayaking, deep sea fishing and scuba diving.
www.laststopsports.com
is based in British Virgin Islands and offers mountain
bike rental as well as the chance to kayak or windsurf.
For scuba
diving around Grenada try www.sanvics.com
If you fancy deep
sea fishing around Grenada and the chance to see Marlin, Sailfish and Yellowfin tuna
you can visit www.caribbean-connexion.com/charters/bezo.htm
Scuba diving,
catamaran sailing, parasailing, windsurfing and
kayaking are all on offer at
www.redsail.com
operating out of Grand Cayman and Aruba.
www.bviwelcome.com/atsea.html
Boat charters, kayaking, scuba diving, snorkelling, windsurfing
and fishing are all available from this site covering Tortola and British Virgin
Islands.
For sailing
enthusiasts everywhere Southern Boating magazine has news and articles specific to
Caribbean region. You can visit their site at
www.southernboating.com.
You may also find these sites useful: www.cruising.org
which is the site for Cruiselines International Association and www.caribbean-on-line.com/sailing/
which has links to various boat hire companies.
How about taking a dip with some bottlenose dolphins? The dolphin sanctuary
on Blue Lagoon island in the Bahamas offers you the chance to do just that. Go to
www.dolphinswims.com
for details.
For a directory of sites offering various watersports
around the whole Caribbean region, click
here...
For a number of different sites spread across the whole Caribbean region,
try this directory site at www.caribinfo.com/directory/csportlinks/cdive/html
