The live camera on Virgin Gorda sits on Saba Rock — a barely one-acre island in North Sound with a bar and a small resort on it — and looks out over the mooring field. North Sound is the busiest charter anchorage in the British Virgin Islands, which makes this the single best live read on how busy the eastern BVI is today.
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.
Saba Rock is a tiny island — barely an acre — sitting in the middle of North Sound at the eastern end of Virgin Gorda, with the Bitter End Yacht Club and Leverick Bay across the water. The camera looks out over the mooring field and the boats on it.
North Sound is a large, well-protected natural harbour and the anchorage most BVI charter itineraries build around, so the boat count in frame is a genuine crowd signal for the whole eastern end of the territory. In high season the field fills through the afternoon; an empty field at 4pm in January usually means the weather has pushed the fleet somewhere more sheltered.
It is the only camera on Virgin Gorda. The next nearest is Scrub Island, off the north-east tip of Tortola, about ten miles west across the top of the Sir Francis Drake Channel.
No public live camera at The Baths, Virgin Gorda's best-known site — the field of granite boulders and tidal grottoes on the south-west shore. The Saba Rock camera is on the opposite, north-east end of the island and shows a completely different coast.
The Baths is also one of the places where a cruise-ship day makes a real difference to how crowded it is, and that is something we track: heavy ship days in Tortola and Virgin Gorda push tender traffic to The Baths, and the cruise pages flag them.
Ferries run to the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour at Spanish Town from Road Town and Trellis Bay on Tortola, and on some days direct from Red Hook on St. Thomas, Cruz Bay on St. John, and Jost Van Dyke. North Sound, where the camera is, is at the far north-eastern end of the island — most people reach Saba Rock, Bitter End and Leverick Bay by boat rather than by road.
The south-west shore between Spanish Town and The Baths carries a chain of boulder-lined bays, and Savannah Bay on the west coast is one of the longest sand beaches in the BVI.
Yes — one, at Saba Rock in North Sound at the island's north-eastern end. It looks out over the mooring field, the busiest charter anchorage in the British Virgin Islands.
No public live camera at The Baths. The Saba Rock camera is on the opposite end of Virgin Gorda, in North Sound, and shows a different coast entirely.
A tiny island — barely an acre — in North Sound, Virgin Gorda, with a bar and a small resort on it. The Bitter End Yacht Club and Leverick Bay sit across the water from it.
Count the boats on the mooring balls. North Sound is the anchorage most BVI charter itineraries are built around, so the fullness of the field is a reasonable read on charter traffic across the eastern end of the territory.
Yes. Virgin Gorda is in the British Virgin Islands, a British Overseas Territory, so U.S. citizens need a passport even when arriving by ferry from St. Thomas or St. John.
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.
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