British Virgin Islands

A sweeping white-sand crescent on Tortola's north shore, known for sailing winds, clear snorkeling water, and a relaxed residential atmosphere that differs from resort-heavy Caribbean islands.

The atmospheric ruins of a nineteenth-century copper mine on the southeastern tip of Virgin Gorda, where the smelter chimney and arched stone stacks still stand on a dramatic clifftop above the Caribbean and Atlantic.

The highest protected ridge on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, cloaking the central spine of the island in a surviving stand of tropical rainforest that was a gift from the Rockefeller family to the Government of the Virgin Islands and that is administered as a national park.

A tiny uninhabited island off the coast of Tortola with a long strand of white sand and surrounding reef, protected as part of the BVI National Park and a popular stop for day-trippers and sailing yachts.

A famous coastline on the southern shore of Virgin Gorda where massive granite boulders form sheltered tidal pools, narrow sea caves, and squeezing gaps, creating one of the most photographed and visited landscapes in the Caribbean.

A bright, boat-oriented bay on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, where a broad sweep of pale sand faces clear Caribbean water and a relaxed shoreline.