Canoeing to the Caribbean

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Visit the Caribbean in KAYAK is an original idea, but really fantastic. You can do in different ways: the simplest is to rent it when you arrive on an island; The more adventurous is to find a good canoe and move from one beach to another camp in wonderful places. As far as I'm concerned, while traveling in catamaran between the islands, it was very convenient to have kayaks directly by boat. On the catamaran the canoe was very well, like the Cacio on macaroni, indeed it was his own death, and as soon as we stopped throwing the kayak in the water and visited beaches and cliffs or we went to get a bathroom where the water was more beautiful.

Below you can find a list of the most beautiful destinations touched by exploring the Caribbean (and in particular the small antilles) by canoe. (For the map and general journey information click here: Vacations to the Caribbean ).
antigua
Explore in Kayak Antigua is a fantastic idea. White beaches, long coast stretches protected by coral reef, charming cliffs ...

Antigua has a diameter of 25 km, so you could pay along all the wonderful dick of the island. Proceeding clockwise and taking advantage of coral reefs, sections with ocean waves would be addressed for short km and with a busy wave: obviously they are necessary courage, common sense and skill!
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is a rather varied island and therefore offers several points of interest for a kayaking ride. The "Sottovento" coast, ie the one not beaten by the Atlantic waves, is the most suitable for canoe travel routes, especially in the reserve area Cousteau and in Deshaies.

The islets Les Saintes, immediately south of Guadeloupe, are another really fantastic place to pay and, indeed, here the canoe is also a valid means of transport to move between an islet and another.


Martinique
Also Martinique is an island rich in attractions for canoeists. On the upwind coast the ideal places are north of Saint Pierre, where the environment is wild, with black sandy beaches and dense forests, and south of Fort de France, with beautiful bays like Les Anses D'Arlet: white sand, cliffs Red, green vegetation, blue and clear sea, ideal for snorkeling.

Even the coast above can be interesting in some points repaired by the coral reef or from rocky leaders. It is the case, for example, of the Presqu'ile de la Caravelle, a very fascinating peninsula in which innumerable beaches and beaches are encountered in a kayaking itinerary.

Saint Lucia e Saint Vincent
These islands are wiler than Martinique and on the west coast They offer several beaches that can only be reached by sea, ideal for a canoe travel itinerary and also to camp (for the more adventurous). At the feet of palm trees, cliffs or dense jungle, with your kayak you will find yourself alone in nature, to look around hoping the pirates of the Caribbean do not arrive.

in Saint Lucia, the most beautiful places are the Pitons and Soufrière (with a splendid sea up to Chantemerle, where snorkeling). In Saint Vincent there is plenty of choice: Chateaublair offers a beach with a characteristic country and around beautiful cliffs of palm trees and other vegetation; Wallilabou and Cumberland Bay are really picturesque for kayaking; South of Wallilabou, other little note bays open with wild black beaches.

le Grenadine e Tobago Cays
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These fantastic islands are a short distance from each other And a folly shiny canoeist might also think about organizing a travel itinerary that brings him from Bequia to Grenada (obviously in the passages between the islands the sea can be very rough). More conveniently the boat solution + kayak. Those who do not have a spacious catamaran could also think of inflatable canoe, even if the wind of the alisee is not a friend of him.
Islands like Bequia, Mayreau and Union Island offer beautiful beaches, characteristic villages and views of Caribbean vegetation.

Tobago Cays, tiny islets that form a natural park are also wonderful. Here the kayak becomes a way to move from one islet to another or to reach the coral reef and snorkel with colored fish, races and turtles. Pay towards the coral reef and the open sea with the waves of the Atlantic that break on it, to then dive with the mask and find me in front of a squaletto of almost two meters was one of the most exciting moments of my travel itinerary to the Caribbean.

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