A long, quiet stretch of Anegada's north shore between Cow Wreck and Loblolly Bay, with the reef offshore and Anegada Road running just behind the sand. The Anegada Beach Club — palapa-tent retreats, a pool, a restaurant and a kitesurfing school — sits at its west end. You come by ferry or small plane, then a taxi across the island from Setting Point.
The north shore of Anegada, British Virgin Islands — about 1½ miles east along the shore from Cow Wreck and about 3 miles west of Loblolly Bay
The beach
White sand facing north onto the Atlantic, with the reef offshore; Anegada Road runs a short walk behind it
The island
Anegada is coral and limestone, not volcanic like the other Virgin Islands, and its highest ground is about 28 ft above the sea
Entry
Free: a beach with no gate
On the shore
The Anegada Beach Club at the west end: palapa-tent retreats and hotel rooms, a pool, a restaurant and beach bar, a spa and a kitesurfing school
Kitesurfing
The club's kite school teaches from November to June, when the wind allows
Getting here
A ferry from Road Town or a small plane to Anegada, then a taxi from Setting Point; the Beach Club runs a shuttle for its guests and diners
Papers
A passport and the BVI's online embarkation card for everyone arriving from the U.S. Virgin Islands; from Tortola the trip is domestic
Money
U.S. dollars
Webcam
None — there is no public live camera on Anegada; the nearest is Saba Rock in North Sound, Virgin Gorda
Today
Is Keel Point Beach good today?
Skip today Rough — 4.2 ft NNW swell, shore break · Thunderstorms in the forecast. If you go, the least bad stretch left is 8 am–11 am.
Day
The call
Why
Best time
Cruise guests here
Sea at the beach
Rain
Today
Skip today
Rough — 4.2 ft NNW swell, shore break · Thunderstorms in the forecast
8 am–11 am
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Some chop · 2.8 ft
Thunder
Tomorrow
Skip today
Rough — 4.7 ft NW swell, shore break · Thunderstorms in the forecast
11 am–2 pm
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Rough · 3.1 ft
Thunder
Sun, Nov 8
Skip today
Rough — 4.5 ft N swell, shore break
3 pm–6 pm
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Rough · 3.1 ft
57%
Mon, Nov 9
Think twice
Choppy — NNE swell into the bay
11 am–2 pm
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Some chop · 2.5 ft
31%
Tue, Nov 10
Think twice
Choppy — NNE swell into the bay
2 pm–5 pm
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Some chop · 2.3 ft
33%
The call is the same one our beach report makes, refreshed every half hour: the swell reaching the north shore (Open-Meteo's marine forecast off Anegada) and the rain forecast. Our sargassum feed has no reading for Keel Point, and no cruise ship calls at Anegada, so there is no seaweed or crowd line here. It is a model, not a report from the beach — the water in front of you has the last word. The bars under each call are the hours from 8 am to 5 pm. Today's beach report
The taxi from the ferry, the boats from Tortola and the USVI, what the BVI charges at the border, today's beach and weather reads and the island around it — each one opens the full page.
Keel Point from OpenStreetMap: the shore, Anegada Road running behind it, the Beach Club's drive and buildings at the west end and the tracks down to the sand. OpenStreetMap does not name the Beach Club; its pin is the end of the drive into its grounds. Tap a pin for its section.
Getting there
How to get to Keel Point Beach
Anegada sits on its own about 15 miles north of Virgin Gorda, and there is no daily boat. From Tortola, the ferry sails from Road Town to Setting Point, on the south shore, on the dates its schedule lists. From St. Thomas and St. John, Inter Island Boat Services runs a day trip from Red Hook and Cruz Bay on the dates it sells. The Anegada Beach Club's own page lists charter flights from Tortola and Virgin Gorda (Cape Air, Island Birds and Caribbean Buzz's helicopter, which lands on the resort's helipad) and private charter boats.
Keel Point is across the island from the dock. Taxis meet the boats at Setting Point and charge the official BVI fare to the Anegada Beach Club, in the table, per person by the size of your party. The BVI Tourist Board's listing says the club runs a free shuttle from the dock, the airport and the Lobster Trap restaurant at Setting Point for guests and day visitors; the club's own site mentions a discounted airport shuttle — call ahead to arrange it. Many visitors rent a car, jeep or scooter instead: Anegada Road runs right past the beach. Drive on the left.
Anegada from the cockpit of a small plane: the flat island and the pale reef water around it, under scattered cloud (March 2011) Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0
One way, per person by the size of the party: fares set by the BVI Road Traffic (Passenger Fares) Regulations (rates revised December 2022). Drive times are Google's for an ordinary day. Fare calculator for any two stops
Check the date, not the weekday: the Road Town ferry sails to Anegada only on the dates on its schedule, and weather can cancel a crossing.
Taxis are few: take your driver's number at Setting Point and book the ride back to the boat — or ask the Beach Club about its shuttle when you book lunch.
Coming from St. Thomas or St. John, everyone needs a passport — U.S. citizens and children included.
Sailing up? Come in through the marked channel to Setting Point in good light, pick up a mooring there, and take a taxi or the club's shuttle across to the north shore.
Keel Point: the Beach Club's hours and what the trip costs
The beach is free — there is no gate. The only food and drink on this stretch of shore is at the Anegada Beach Club, which welcomes day visitors for lunch, its beach bar and its pool, the BVI Tourist Board's listing says; it publishes no day-pass price. What a day here costs is getting to Anegada: the boat or the plane, the taxi across the island and, from St. Thomas or St. John, the British Virgin Islands' charges at the border.
What it costs
Keel Point beach
Free
A day visit at the Beach Club
No published price
BVI environmental and tourism levy, arriving from the USVI
$10
BVI departure tax, leaving by ferry
$20
BVI departure tax, leaving by air
$50
The levy and departure taxes are the UK government's figures; the levy is paid by everyone arriving in the BVI, so from Tortola there is nothing to pay at Keel Point beyond the taxi. The club publishes no prices for meals, rooms, kite lessons or rentals online. The taxi fare from Setting Point is the official one, in the table above; the ferry fares are on the route pages.
The Anegada Beach Club
Breakfast
8:00 – 10:30 am
Lunch
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Dinner (reserve by 5 pm)
6:00 – 8:00 pm
The club's business hours
8:00 am – 9:00 pm
Kitesurfing school
November – June, wind permitting
From the club's own restaurant and activities pages. Dinner is by reservation, made by 5 pm, on (284) 346-4005 — the BVI Tourist Board's listing gives 346-4006 for restaurant reservations. Our seasonal-closures tracker has the club open through hurricane season last year, some days on reduced hours, unconfirmed for this year.
Papers and the reef
✓A passport, arriving from the USVI — for everyone, U.S. citizens and children included
✓The BVI's online embarkation card — required of every traveller entering the BVI since January 1, 2025
✓U.S. customs on the way back — when the boat lands in Cruz Bay or Red Hook
✕Standing on the coral — the reef is alive, and it cuts
Keel Point is a quiet shore with one place on it: the Anegada Beach Club at the west end. East of the club the sand runs on beside Anegada Road with nothing built on it. Hours and services are the club's own, as listed in October 2026.
Resort, restaurant & bar
The Anegada Beach Club
A small resort on the dune at the west end of the beach: palapa retreats — tents on the sand — hotel rooms and a family suite, a pool, a spa and a beach bar. Its restaurant, Anegada Eats, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner under shaded palapas — lobster, conch fritters and cracked conch, burgers and the day's specials, with no prices published. Day visitors are welcome for lunch, the bar and the pool, the BVI Tourist Board's listing says. It won the Best Lobster Sampler competition at the 2025 Anegada Lobster Festival.
The club's activities page lists a full-service kitesurfing school, run by the certified instructor Tommy Gaunt, teaching kitesurfing and stand-up paddleboarding from November to June when the wind allows. It sells and rents kite gear, and rents paddleboards, kayaks and snorkel gear. Prices are not published: ask at the front desk.
East of the club the beach runs on with Anegada Road a short walk behind it and nothing built on the shore. OpenStreetMap maps tracks from the road down to the sand east of the club and at the east end of the stretch. Bring your own shade, water and food: there is nothing on this part of the shore.
Safety
No lifeguards, little shade
We know of no lifeguard service at Keel Point or anywhere on Anegada: swim with someone, and stay on the sand when a north swell is breaking hard on the reef — the call at the top of the page reads the swell every half hour. Shade is the scrub at the back of the beach and the club's palapas.
Getting back
Taxis and the shuttle
There is no taxi stand at Keel Point. Taxis drop you at the Beach Club's drive off Anegada Road; take your driver's number and book the ride back, especially to make a ferry. The BVI Tourist Board's listing says the club runs a free shuttle from the Setting Point dock, the airport and the Lobster Trap — ask when you book.
The steady easterly trade wind blows along this north-facing shore, and the outer reef keeps the swell off the water inside it. The club's kite school gives lessons and rents gear from November to June, wind permitting; its paddleboard lessons are for the calmer days.
Walk east from the Beach Club along the water's edge: the beach runs on with nobody on it most days. Go early or late, with water and a hat — there is no shade on the open sand.
Anegada means lobster, and the Beach Club's sampler won at the 2025 Lobster Festival. Lunch runs 11 am to 5 pm; book dinner by 5 pm. The 2026 Lobster Festival is on November 27 to 29.
About 1½ miles west along the shore, near the island's north-west tip: shallow water inside the reef and the Cow Wreck Beach Bar on the sand. The taxis run there from Setting Point at the same official fare.
For reef close to the sand, go east to Loblolly Bay, about 3 miles along the north shore, where the coral starts a short swim out. Horseshoe Reef, off the island's east end, is protected: see it with a licensed operator, not your own boat.
The salt ponds at the west end of the island hold a flock of Caribbean flamingos, brought back in 1992 after hunting wiped out the island's flock; the Western Salt Ponds became a protected Ramsar wetland in 1999. The club's activities page lists a powerboat tour round the island that stops for the flamingos and the conch-shell mounds. Keep your distance, and bring binoculars.
The Anegada rock iguana lives wild on this island and nowhere else, and is critically endangered. The BVI National Parks Trust raises young iguanas at a headstart facility in The Settlement and releases them when they are big enough to survive.
At Keel Point the food is the Anegada Beach Club's: breakfast, lunch from 11 to 5 and dinner from 6 to 8, with dinner reserved by 5 pm. It is lobster country — the club's restaurant page lists lobster, conch and the day's fish, and gourmet burgers besides. East of the club there is nothing on the shore, so bring water if you walk.
Every year in late November the island's restaurants hold the Anegada Lobster Festival — November 27 to 29 in 2026, Virgin Islands News Online reported in June. The Beach Club, "located at Keel Point", won its Best Lobster Sampler competition in 2025.
Sorting spiny lobsters at a waterfront stand on Anegada during the Lobster Festival (November 2019) Photo: anoldent, CC BY-SA 2.0
At Keel Point
Anegada Eats at the Beach ClubBreakfast 8–10:30, lunch 11–5, dinner 6–8 (reserve by 5 pm, (284) 346-4005). Lobster, conch, fish and burgers; no published prices.
The beach barThe club's open-air bar on the sand, open to day visitors, the BVI Tourist Board's listing says.
Along the north shore
Cow Wreck Beach BarOn the sand about 1½ miles west, near the north-west tip; the island's other beach lunch.
Loblolly BayBig Bamboo and Flash of Beauty, about 3 miles east, by the reef.
Weather & sea
Keel Point Beach weather and the best time to go
Warm all year, with a steady easterly trade wind blowing across the flat island and short tropical showers rather than all-day rain; the forecast below has this week's numbers. December to April is the dry, busy sailing season. June to November is hurricane season, and in late summer some of the island's restaurants close for a few weeks.
Keel Point faces north onto the open Atlantic, with the reef between the beach and the ocean, and the trade wind blows along the shore rather than onto it. Most days the reef takes the swell and the water inside is calm. In winter, swells from storms far up the North Atlantic arrive from the north and break hard on the reef; then the water inside surges and swimming is for another day. The call at the top of this page reads the swell every half hour.
The next 7 days on Anegada
Day
Sky
High / low
Rain
Wind
Seas offshore
Today
Thunderstorms
85° / 80°F
92%
SW 18 mph, gusts 30
3.6 ft
Tomorrow
Thunderstorms
83° / 79°F
82%
WSW 20 mph, gusts 28
4.1 ft
Sun, Nov 8
Thunderstorms
84° / 80°F
72%
W 15 mph
3.8 ft
Mon, Nov 9
Partly cloudy
84° / 82°F
31%
NNW 8 mph
3.2 ft
Tue, Nov 10
Overcast
83° / 82°F
33%
NE 13 mph
2.8 ft
Wed, Nov 11
Overcast
83° / 82°F
25%
E 13 mph
2.8 ft
Thu, Nov 12
Drizzle
84° / 82°F
29%
ESE 11 mph
3.2 ft
Open-Meteo forecast for Anegada, refreshed every half hour. The seas are offshore; how much of it reaches the sand is the call above. BVI weather & sailing week · North swell season
Sea temperature by month
80°Jan
79°Feb
80°Mar
81°Apr
84°May
85°Jun
85°Jul
85°Aug
87°Sep
86°Oct
84°Nov
81°Dec
Daily-mean sea-surface temperature off Anegada, averaged 2021–2024 (Open-Meteo marine reanalysis): warmest in Sep (86.5°F), coolest in Feb (79.4°F).
Live cameras
Is there a Keel Point webcam?
No. There is no public live camera at Keel Point, at the Anegada Beach Club or anywhere on Anegada that we can embed, and we would rather say so than show a still photo dressed up as live. The nearest live camera is at Saba Rock, in North Sound at the east end of Virgin Gorda — about 15 miles south, and a different coast.
Anegada Beach Club Limited buys 10.444 acres at Keel Point from P. Watson White for $3.4 million — about 700 feet of beach and a 16-room hotel formerly known as the Sands Hotel, near Cow Wreck — and plans luxury units, a pool and an honour bar.
About 2013
The Anegada Beach Club opens
The resort opens at Keel Point; BVI News wrote in October 2018 that it had opened five years before.
2017
The storms
The hurricanes of 2017 damage the resort, which closes for a rebuild.
February 2018
Open again
The club reopens "freshly rebuilt, upgraded", the Caribbean Journal reports, around its luxury tents on the dune; BVI News puts the renovation at $3 million.
October 2018
Boutique Eco-Hotel of the Year
The Caribbean Journal names it Boutique Eco-Hotel of the Year at its first Caribbean Boutique Hotel Awards.
October 2021
The kite school
The Caribbean Journal writes about Tommy Gaunt's kitesurfing school on site, which still teaches there.
November 2025
Best Lobster Sampler
At the Anegada Lobster Festival, the Anegada Beach Club, "located at Keel Point", is voted the winner of the Best Lobster Sampler competition.
The Road Town ferry sails to Anegada on set dates, not every day. Pick your day from its schedule first, then plan the beach around it.
Book the ride back
Anegada has only a few taxis. Take your driver's number at Setting Point, or ask the Beach Club about its shuttle when you book lunch.
Reserve dinner by 5
The club's kitchen takes dinner reservations until 5 pm, and lobster is cooked to order.
Kite season
The kite school teaches from November to June, when the trade wind is steady. Check the week's wind before you book a lesson.
Sun and water
The island is flat with little shade. Bring a hat, reef-friendly sunscreen and more water than you think, especially to walk the empty sand east of the club.
Passport from the USVI
From St. Thomas or St. John everyone needs a passport and the BVI's online embarkation card, U.S. citizens included.
On the north shore, between Cow Wreck Beach (about 1½ miles west along the shore) and Loblolly Bay (about 3 miles east). Anegada Road runs just behind the beach, and the Anegada Beach Club is at its west end. The Setting Point ferry dock is across the island on the south shore.
How much is a taxi from Setting Point to Keel Point?
Taxis on Anegada charge fixed BVI fares, per person by the size of the party; the posted fare is to the Anegada Beach Club. From the Setting Point ferry dock it is $20 for one rider, $10 each for three or more. The ride is about 14 minutes (9.6 km). There are only a few taxis, so book the ride back — or ask the club about its shuttle.
Can you visit the Anegada Beach Club for the day?
Yes. The BVI Tourist Board's listing invites day visitors for lunch, the beach bar and the pool, and says the club runs a free shuttle from the dock, the airport and the Lobster Trap at Setting Point. No day-pass price is published; call the club on (284) 346-4005 before you go.
What are the Anegada Beach Club restaurant's hours?
Its restaurant page lists breakfast from 8 to 10:30 am, lunch from 11 am to 5 pm and dinner from 6 to 8 pm, with dinner reservations by 5 pm on (284) 346-4005. The BVI Tourist Board lists 346-4006 for restaurant reservations.
Can you kitesurf at Keel Point?
Yes. The Anegada Beach Club's activities page lists a full-service kitesurfing school, run by the instructor Tommy Gaunt, teaching from November to June when the wind allows, with kite gear for rent and sale and paddleboard lessons. Prices are not published.
Is there snorkeling at Keel Point?
The reef is offshore here, and our beach model does not count Keel Point as a snorkel-from-the-sand beach. The Beach Club rents snorkel gear. For coral a short swim from the sand, go east to Loblolly Bay; Horseshoe Reef is for licensed operators' boats.
Do you need a passport to visit Keel Point?
From the U.S. Virgin Islands, yes: Anegada is in the British Virgin Islands, so everyone arriving from St. Thomas or St. John — U.S. citizens included — needs a passport and the BVI's online embarkation card, and pays the BVI's $10 arrival levy and $20 ferry departure tax. From Tortola or Virgin Gorda it is a domestic trip.
Are there lifeguards at Keel Point?
We know of no lifeguard service at Keel Point or anywhere on Anegada. Swim with someone, and keep out of the water when a north swell is breaking on the reef.
Can you do a day trip to Keel Point?
Yes, on the right day. On a Road Town ferry sailing date the morning boat reaches Anegada and the afternoon boat goes back, which leaves the middle of the day for the beach. Inter Island's trip from Red Hook and Cruz Bay is run as a day trip. A charter flight works any day.
Is there a webcam at Keel Point?
No. There is no public live camera at Keel Point or anywhere on Anegada. The nearest live camera is at Saba Rock in North Sound, Virgin Gorda, about 15 miles south.
Photo & map credits
White sand and a low dune of scrub on Anegada, photographed on the drive to Cow Wreck Beach: shallow green water inside the reef and the flat shore running away into the distance (May 2008) — ScubaBear68, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
A kiteboarder on the flat turquoise water off Anegada, with a mooring buoy in the foreground (December 2011) — Kevin Stroup, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Anegada from the air: a long, low island with the salt ponds inside it, ringed by sand and the turquoise water over the reef — David Broad, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Anegada from the cockpit of a small plane: the flat island and the pale reef water around it, under scattered cloud (March 2011) — Shawn from Airdrie, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Horseshoe Reef from the air: coral heads in turquoise shallows running out from Anegada, the island low on the horizon — Walker Mangum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Sorting spiny lobsters at a waterfront stand on Anegada during the Lobster Festival (November 2019) — anoldent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Cow Wreck Beach, west along the shore from Keel Point, seen from the bar: palms, picnic tables and swimmers in shallow water (November 2019) — anoldent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
An Anegada rock iguana (Cyclura pinguis) on Anegada — Alejandro Sanchez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
The beach at Loblolly Bay: pale sand, clear shallow water and low green scrub along the shore — Cayeldo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Loblolly Bay looking east along Anegada's north shore from under a thatched shade: white sand, two swimmers in the turquoise shallows, the reef dark under the water, and the far end of the bay — Flash of Beauty's end — on the horizon — Kathleen Tyler Conklin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
Cow Wreck Beach from the bar: palms, picnic tables and swimmers in shallow turquoise water — anoldent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
A coconut palm leaning out over clear, shallow water on white sand at Anegada's westernmost tip — the same shore as Pomato Point, about 1.5 km north of it (May 2008) — ScubaBear68, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
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