BVI Webcams — Live Cameras Across the British Virgin Islands
Five live cameras across the British Virgin Islands, from White Bay on Jost Van Dyke in the west to North Sound on Virgin Gorda in the east. Between them they cover the territory's two busiest anchorages, both ends of the most famous beach in the BVI, and the Sir Francis Drake Channel that runs down the middle of it all.
● 5 live cameras on BVI
📍 Map of the British Virgin Islands from Jost Van Dyke to North Sound showing all five live webcam locations
All 5 live cameras on the British Virgin Islands
Soggy Dollar Bar — Live Camera
📍 White Bay (west end) · Jost Van Dyke, BVI
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Live from the world-famous Soggy Dollar Bar on the west end of White Bay, Jost Van Dyke — home of the original Painkiller. A passport is required to visit in person.
What to watch for: White Bay has no dock, which is how the bar got its name — everyone swims ashore from a boat and pays with wet money. The number of boats on the mooring balls in frame is a direct read on how busy the beach is that day.
Live from Pink House Villas on the east end of White Bay, Jost Van Dyke — a beachfront view down the bay from the opposite end from Soggy Dollar Bar, near Ivan's Stress-Free Bar.
What to watch for: Looks back down White Bay from the opposite end to the Soggy Dollar camera, so between the two you can see the whole beach at once and tell which end has space.
Live from Scrub Island Resort — a private-island resort just off the north-east tip of Tortola, with views over the marina and the neighboring cays of the British Virgin Islands.
What to watch for: The closest live camera to Tortola: Scrub Island sits a few hundred metres off Tortola's north-east tip, just north of Beef Island and the Terrance B. Lettsome (EIS) runway. The marina in frame is a good read on BVI charter traffic.
A live-updating view from Quart-A-Nancy Point on Cooper Island, BVI — a small island south of Tortola with a beach club and mooring field. The image refreshes automatically every 30 seconds.
What to watch for: Cooper Island sits on the south side of the Sir Francis Drake Channel, across from Tortola. Manchioneel Bay's mooring field fills from early afternoon in season, and this frame shows it filling.
Live from Saba Rock, the tiny island bar and resort in North Sound, Virgin Gorda — a look at the boats, the mooring field, and today's conditions on the BVI's eastern end.
What to watch for: North Sound is the BVI's main charter anchorage, so the mooring field in frame is the single best live read on how busy the eastern BVI is. Saba Rock itself is barely an acre, with Bitter End and Leverick Bay across the water.
Jost Van Dyke carries two, both on White Bay and pointed at each other: the Soggy Dollar Bar at the west end, home of the original Painkiller, and Pink House Villas at the east end near Ivan's Stress-Free Bar. Together they show the entire beach, which matters on a busy charter day when one end fills before the other.
Scrub Island sits off the north-east tip of Tortola, a few hundred metres past Beef Island and the airport runway, and its camera looks over a working charter marina. Cooper Island is across the Sir Francis Drake Channel to the south, where the Quart-A-Nancy Point camera refreshes every 30 seconds over the Manchioneel Bay mooring field. Saba Rock, the farthest east, is a one-acre island in North Sound, Virgin Gorda, looking out over the largest charter anchorage in the territory.
Reading the BVI charter fleet from the cameras
Four of the five cameras look at mooring fields, which makes them unusually good at one specific job: telling you how busy the territory's anchorages are right now. The BVI charter fleet moves in a rough daily rhythm — boats leave an anchorage mid-morning, sail a short leg, and start picking up balls again from early afternoon — so a mooring field that is full by 2pm in season means the next one will be too.
North Sound (Saba Rock) and White Bay (the two Jost Van Dyke cameras) are the two most-booked stops on a standard week, so they fill first. Manchioneel Bay at Cooper Island is the mid-channel overnight stop and fills a little later.
Tortola, the largest island and the territory's capital, has no public live camera of its own — the nearest views are Scrub Island off its north-east tip and Cooper Island across the channel. Anegada, the flat coral island 15 miles north of Virgin Gorda, has none either; the nearest is Saba Rock. Peter Island, Norman Island and Salt Island have none.
Where a camera exists on someone's own site but is same-origin locked or gated behind a session token, we leave it off rather than ship an embed that renders an empty box.
Most visitors from the U.S. Virgin Islands arrive by ferry — Charlotte Amalie or Red Hook on St. Thomas to Road Town or West End on Tortola, with onward boats to Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke and Anegada. A passport is required: the BVI is a British Overseas Territory, not part of the United States, even though the currency is the U.S. dollar and the time zone is the same.
British Overseas Territory — not part of the United States
Islands
Around 60 islands and cays; roughly 16 are inhabited
Capital
Road Town, on Tortola
Main islands
Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke
Airport
Terrance B. Lettsome International (EIS), on Beef Island off Tortola
Entry
A passport is required, including for U.S. citizens arriving by ferry from the USVI
Currency
U.S. dollar
Time zone
Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round — no daylight saving
Live cameras
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BVI webcam FAQ
How many live webcams are there in the British Virgin Islands?
Five public live cameras: the Soggy Dollar Bar and Pink House Villas at either end of White Bay on Jost Van Dyke, Scrub Island off the north-east tip of Tortola, Cooper Island at Quart-A-Nancy Point, and Saba Rock in North Sound, Virgin Gorda.
Is there a webcam on Tortola?
Not on Tortola itself. The two nearest live cameras are Scrub Island, a few hundred metres off Tortola's north-east tip past Beef Island, and Cooper Island across the Sir Francis Drake Channel.
Which BVI webcam shows the busiest anchorage?
Saba Rock, in North Sound at the eastern end of Virgin Gorda. North Sound is the largest and most-booked charter anchorage in the territory, so the mooring field in frame is the best single read on BVI charter traffic.
Do I need a passport to visit the British Virgin Islands?
Yes. The BVI is a British Overseas Territory and is not part of the United States, so U.S. citizens need a passport even when arriving by ferry from St. Thomas or St. John. The currency is the U.S. dollar and the time zone is the same as the USVI.
What time zone is the BVI in?
Atlantic Standard Time, UTC−4, all year. The territory does not observe daylight saving time, so it matches U.S. Eastern time in summer and is one hour ahead of it in winter.
Streams are provided by third parties and may occasionally be offline. VIslandGuide links to publicly available live feeds and does not operate the cameras. Where an operator publishes a still image rather than a continuous stream, the camera above says so and states its refresh interval.
