Carlisle Bay

Carlisle Cove is a lovely, peaceful bay with one of the island's largest beaches and dazzling, quiet, shallow seas. Home to the 'Boatyard', many cruise ship guests can spend the full day here. Exercise, jogging, swimming, snorkeling, body or 'boogie' boarding, eating, drinking, or simply sitting in a beach chair watching the yachts and other small vessels anchored in the bay as they gently move from side to side on the water has something for everyone at Carlisle Bay. With car parking facilities, adequate access for those with mobility challenges, toilets, showers and changing rooms, and a lifeguard on duty, you will not want to leave Carlisle Bay in Barbados.

Carlisle Bay in Barbados has also been developed into a very popular and oft frequented underwater marine park. It is especially well known in Barbados for its scuba diving opportunities, with no less than six shipwrecks in close proximity: Berwind, a 70ft long First World War French tug boat sunk by her own crew in 1919; Ce-trek, a derelict cement boat that was sunk in 1986; Eillon, a 110ft former drug boat freighter that was sunk in 1996 as part of the marine park; Bajan Queen, Barbados' first tug boat when Bridgetown harbour was built in the 1960s, was sunk in 2002; Cornwallis, a Canadian freighter sunk by German u-boat torpedo during the Second World War; and a naval landing barge originally found in Carlisle Bay in Barbados. Beginner to expert divers will not be disappointed in their search for hidden underwater treasures if they visit Carlisle Bay in Barbados.

Sunken ships are a source of numerous antiques and ship paraphernalia, including anchors, pylons, bottles, cannons, and cannon balls mark a path from one ship to the next. Sea horses, rays, barracudas, octopus, reef squid, mackerel, moray eel, and frog fish, as well as the more uncommon mantis shrimps, lettuce slugs, and pencil stars, all call the wrecks home.

Google rating: 4.7/5.0
Location: Bay Street, St. Michael, Bridgetown