We rented a kayak at Maho Bay, and rowed across to the island at Whistling Cay. What a wonderful experience! You can snorkel around the entire island (even this grandmother could do it), and take in the beautiful coral formations, abundant tropical fish, including parrot fish, queen angel fish, trunk fish, barracuda, nurse shark, crabs, etc. etc. etc. We saw... more

We rented a two-person, sit-on-top kayak at Cinnamon Bay ($45 for a half day) and rowed out to Whistling Cay. The best (really only) place to beach a ship is in front of the old customs house. You can also tie off to the scuba buoys (red) on the west side of the cay, but commercial vessels have priority. As... more

Whistling Cay had nice underwater formations. At 15', saw lobsters there but not elsewhere. Island is larger than other snorkeling areas so more reef. Small, rocky beach. Cinnammon as good but smaller. Waterlemon better but smaller. The fun of this place was taking the sailboat there. Whistling Cay requires a boat to get to but only because of high-speed motorboats... more