Luxury Hotels In Shoal Bay

Locate The Beachfront Hotel

Zemi Beach House provides a direct beachfront accommodation reference on Shoal Bay East. Keep that actual local address clear when selecting the hotel.

Understand The Archaeology Of Fountain Cavern

Inland from lower Shoal Bay East, Fountain Cavern is a two-chambered limestone cave with a subterranean freshwater pool. Indigenous rock art and archaeological material give the site a cultural significance beyond its geological form. It provides a named historical subject for understanding the land behind the shore.

A face carved into a stalagmite transformed an existing formation into a three-dimensional spiritual image. The relationship between rock art, water and ceremony gives the cave its particular historical meaning. An interest in how people used a natural place can therefore lead to different questions from an interest in the cave's physical shape alone.

Compare A Water-History Subject At Island Harbour

At Island Harbour near Anguilla's northern coast, Big Spring occupies a partly open collapsed limestone sinkhole with freshwater springs. Indigenous use combined obtaining water with ceremonial activity; later residents also collected water there. The open sinkhole and the enclosed chambers of Fountain Cavern are different physical settings, while both help explain freshwater's place in the island's human history.

Our Anguilla destination guide provides the wider island context.