Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Swing in a hammock at the
Big Bamboo
(
Click here
)
Walk the deserted beach at
Pomato Point
(
Click here
)
Join the party at the
Anegada Reef Hotel bar
(
Click here
)
Cast a line for some world-class fishing on the flats around
Setting Point
(
Click
here
)
History
Anegada is a killer island. Literally. It takes its name from the Spanish word for 'drowned'
or 'flooded,' and that's what it did to more than 300 ships in the early years - it sunk them.
The island is so low (28ft above sea level at its highest) that mariners couldn't see it to get
their bearings until they were trapped in the surrounding coral maze known as Horseshoe
Reef. Some of these wrecks are legendary, such as that of the HMS
Astrea,
a 32-gun British
frigate, and the
Paramatta,
an English steamship.
In the 17th century, the island became the chronicled haunt of pirates, including Billy
Bones and Normand. The reclusive settlers who followed in their wake subsisted on fish-
ing, vegetable plots and salvaging the wrecks on the reef.
