Where to Stay?

After some research I decided in 1994 that Anguilla was the island for me. I had a Caribbean Travel & Life magazine from July/August 1993 that featured Anguilla that I had held onto (I am looking at it right now as a matter of fact).

The front cover is a shot of a man and a women sitting in beach chairs that are placed in the surf. As the clear water laps over their feet they are looking out into the blue nothingness that I've come to associate with Shoal Bay East. Nothing but a view of blue sea and blue sky. This is a scene that I would come to repeat myself many times on Shoal Bay East.

The article is written by Susan Pierres and is called Anguilla Love Song. It had certainly struck a cord with me. This lucky lady lived on Anguilla at the time, I don't know if she still does. What I always remember from the article is when she talks about going "over the hill". Heading to Shoal Bay East she says "as you cross the crest of the little hill on the final stretch of the Shoal Bay road and you're heading straight for the sea, all of the sudden-kaboom-the vista appears. It's British Anguilla's tricolor, a panoramic blue on blue on blue; the indescribably iridescent turquoise water as far as the outer reef, then a horizontal strip of luminous cobalt as far as the horizon topped by a celestial cerulean sky".

Ahhh, Anguilla.