The Baths are the BVI’s signature landscape — enormous granite boulders, some the size of houses, tumbled along the shoreline of southern Virgin Gorda to form caves, grottoes and tidal pools. Most visitors come for the walk through them to Devil’s Bay. Fewer put a mask on, and they are missing the better half.

What you will see at Baths Snorkel

Snorkelling around the boulders is genuinely good. The rock continues underwater in the same jumbled formations, creating channels and overhangs full of reef fish, with light shafting down between the boulders. The ground is shallow and the water clear.

Conditions matter. Surge moves between the rocks and the granite is unforgiving, so this is a calm-day site — when there is swell running, the entry alone is hazardous.

Getting there on your crewed charter

The Baths uses National Parks day moorings and anchoring is prohibited. Landing is via the dinghy line, swimming the last stretch to the beach. Go at first light: by nine or ten the moorings are full and the boulders are crowded.

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