Sandy Beach, Store Bay, and Pigeon Point offer boat departures for Buccoo Reef, as well as sugar-white sands abutting an impossibly green shore fringed with tall royal palms. Pigeon Point is a great place to snag a shaded stretch, rent a beach chair, and drift into a nap to the sounds of the surf and the chirping birds. Explore under the sea Rich soil deposits from South America s Orinoco River nourish dolphins, turtles, and nurse sharks that swim off Crown Point, and manta rays off Speyside. Here scuba divers are lured to sites with names such as Angel Reef, Japanese Gardens, and Bookends. Varieties of coral flourish, with one of the largest brain corals in the world found off the coast of Little Tobago.
Snorkeling is also excellent.
Growing in popularity are snorkel spots off Speyside, where enthusiasts are attracted by the manta rays. But most of the glass-bottom boat snorkeling tours shove off from Pigeon Point and other southwestern harbors to explore Buccoo Reef and Coral Gardens. Visit a rainforest Tiny Tobago, at just 27 miles in length and nine miles wide, is ribboned with roads that twist and turn to accommodate its cliffs and steep ridges. Venture inland and discover rainforests dense with tropical blooms, bamboo clusters, jabbering birds, and neon-colored lizards. Stop to pick a ripe, red fruit from a cashew tree.