| Anchorage in Prickly Bay Grenada |
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| Getting around Grenada - Sailing guide for Grenada | |
  Anchorage in Prickly Bay, also known as L’Anse aux Epines Bay , is anchoring in the most beautiful of the southern harbors. This anchorage has a number of advantages over the others, making it the recommended stop for your entire trip. You can lounge around in relative quiet, swim in the clear water, clear customs, take on water, fuel, and supplies at Spice Island Marine , dine, and reach other points on the island by taxi or foot - all from this one anchorage. So, if you’re visiting Grenada with a boat for 4 or 5 days, establish Prickly Bay as your base of operations and go from there. Situated on the old Boatyard at Prickly Bay is the Prickly Bay Waterside development. It sits at the water’s edge of the Lance-aux-Épines peninsular in the fashionable southern end of Grenada, less than ten minutes drive from the airport. Prickly Bay Waterside is an adventurous, exciting, groundbreaking development of luxury, hi-tech houses and apartments. Good design is timeless and Prickly Bay Waterside has all the hallmarks of a current and future classic. Spice Island Marine Grenada marina and yacht haulout  Prickly Bay is the second of the south coast anchorages past Point Salines from the western (leeward) side of the island. It is a little over an hour and a half from St. George’s by motor. You could sail the first four miles (45 minutes), but once you round Point Salines, the situation changes. Substantially more wind, current, and waves will force you to motor the last two and a half miles, and that will take you 40 minutes. It won't be pleasant. Sailing would take substantially longer. It is only a 10 minute motor from True Blue Bay, and a 30 minute motor from Mt. Hartman Bay or Hog Island. The entrance is wide and open, so head right down the middle. Be mindful of the reefs that extend out on east side of the bay. There is also a reef right in the middle of the harbor that is too deep to see but too shallow to cross over at low tide. It is marked by a white ball and easy to spot once you are aware of it. There are a number of great places to anchor, depending on what you like. A very pretty spot is in the northeast corner of the Bay, beside the “no mooring” buoys near the Calabash Hotel. The depth is about 20 feet, so you’ll need a fair bit of anchor chain down to achieve the proper scope. The wind direction shifts periodically, so be sure you have enough room to swing on your chain. Plan ahead. If you want to be by yourself, it is possible to anchor further out, away from everybody else. Spice Island Marine has one of the few decent dinghy docks in the southern Caribbean, along the seawall in front of the main lawn. Slips are also available at if you really want to be at the dock. A different anchoring experience is available closer to the mouth of the harbor, right in front of the Rendezvous Beach Resort. The shoreline is real pretty there, and you will find it much quieter because it is not overrun with boats. The resort has moorings available for $10 US per night, and the floating dinghy dock makes the deployment of rum-soaked individuals less entertaining, but easier.
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