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Idyllic surroundings - Blue Lagoon, Grand Cayman.

Blue Lagoon

Top choice in Ocho Rios, Port Antonio & the North Coast


The waters that launched Brooke Shields鈥 movie career are by any measure one of the most beautiful spots in Jamaica. The 180ft-deep (55m) 鈥淏lue Hole鈥澛(as it is known locally) opens to the sea through a narrow funnel, but is fed by freshwater springs that come in at a depth of about 131ft (40m). As a result, the water changes color through every shade of jade and emerald during the day, thanks to cold freshwater that blankets the warm mass of seawater lurking below.

The聽seemingly bottomless pool of turquoise water is nestled in a protected cove and surrounded by forested cliffs.

Jamaica, Port Antonio, blue lagoon
Blue Lagoon is a definite bucket-list trip in Jamaica 漏 Westend61/Getty Images

How to get to the Blue Lagoon

From Port Antonio, it's about a 17-minute drive on Fair Prospect Rd to Folly Rd with a turn off at Blue Hole Road. Park at the beach. Since this area is public land, there is no entrance fee.聽

You can swim at the entrance to the lagoon, or take a boat tour聽(around US$30) on a short ride past some glitzy seafront villas to nearby Cocktail Beach (where parts of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail were filmed) and rustic Monkey Island.

Note that if it's been raining heavily, runoff water from the hills turns the lagoon a聽murky green.


香港六合彩即时开奖's must-see attractions

Nearby Ocho Rios, Port Antonio & the North Coast attractions

1. San San Beach

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San San is a pretty beach used by residents of the villas on Alligator Head, and guests of the Goblin Hill, Fern Hill and Jamaica Palace hotels. The bay鈥

2. Winnifred Beach

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Perched on a cliff 13km east of Port Antonio is the little hamlet of Fairy Hill. Follow the road steeply downhill and you鈥檒l reach Winnifred Beach, yet鈥

3. Frenchman鈥檚 Cove

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This beautiful little cove just east of Drapers boasts a small but perfect white-sand beach, where the water is fed by a freshwater river that spits鈥

4. Trident Castle

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A strange slice of Ruritania in the Caribbean, this folly on a headland 3km from Port Antonio was built in the 1970s by the (in)famously eccentric鈥

5. Boston Bay Beach

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Boston Bay's beach sits in a small pretty cove, and while its golden sand is draw enough, the shape of the bay and prevailing weather make it a perfect鈥

6. Folly

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This rather appropriately named two-story, 60-room mansion on the peninsula east of East Harbour was built entirely of concrete in pseudo-Grecian style in鈥

7. Folly Point Lighthouse

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Near the Folly mansion stands the orange candy-striped Folly Point Lighthouse, built in 1888, which overlooks Monkey Island. Said island adds even more鈥

8. Christ Church

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A redbrick Anglican building constructed in neo-Romanesque style around 1840 (much of the structure dates from 1903). Look for the brass lectern donated鈥