The Best Sailing Vacations for Wildlife Spotting

Headlining the wildlife line-up on this tour of the British Virgin Islands are the pink Caribbean flamingos of Anegada Island – watch them tip-toeing over the salt ponds before you retire to the dock for a traditional lobster dinner. From Anegada, you’ll sail to Guana Island, a journey on which you’ll see dolphins leaping alongside the boat – if you’re lucky. Once you’re moored at Monkey Point – no monkeys, unfortunately – don your snorkel to swim with the sea turtles that often cruise the reef.

There are plenty of opportunities for wildlife spotting in the sparsely-populated Grenadine Islands, especially in the Tobago Cays Marine Park. A cluster of five uninhabited islands set in a sand-bottom lagoon, surrounded by a 4km (2.5mi) barrier reef, the Cays host a variety of land and sea species, chief amongst them populations of green, hawksbill and leatherback turtles. You’ll also hike through the tropical forests of Mayreau and the jungles of Saint Vincent.