Pink Beach is a long strip of sand beneath the white salt mountains, with a gentle slope and an entry that rarely causes trouble. The pink of the name comes from finely ground shell grit and shows best in low sun. The dive is calm; the setting makes the difference.
Pink Beach is a beginner shore dive on the south coast: a shallow sand strip, a reef top at six to eight metres, a gentle slope to twenty-eight metres and the salt mountains as a backdrop.
A shallow sand strip runs to a reef top at six to eight metres with finger coral and scattered coral heads. The slope drops gradually to twenty-eight metres with sponges and sea fans. Rays rest on the sand, and barracuda and jacks patrol the edge.
Late in the afternoon, when the sun hangs low and the beach shows its colour. In light wind the shallow strip stays clear.
The beach is narrow in a southerly wind and the grit is unpleasant on bare feet. The dive is flat: little relief, little drama. Ample unpaved parking, no shade, no water, no toilet. The beach has been washed away more than once by past hurricane damage.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
Behind the beach lie the salt pans and the mountains of harvested salt that define the landscape of the southern point. A few hundred metres on stand the nineteenth-century slave huts — that history belongs to this coast.
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