Things to do
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Crystal Caves
A cave found in 1905 by two boys chasing a lost cricket ball, its chambers hung with stalactites above a lake of clear seawater crossed on a floating pontoon. The water is deep enough that the bottom is visible twenty metres down.
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Fantasy Cave
The second of the two caves on the same site, drier than Crystal Cave and more densely grown with columns and flowstone. It was closed for decades and reopened only in 2001.
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Blue Hole Park
Parkland of collapsed cave and mangrove on the edge of Castle Harbour, with a deep water hole that people jump into from the rock. Grottoes and tidal ponds run back from the path into the limestone.
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Grotto Bay Beach Resort
A resort on Castle Harbour with two caves inside its own grounds, one of them a spa and the other open to swim in. It is the closest hotel to the airport.
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Walsingham Nature Reserve
The tract of undermined limestone and old woodland behind Blue Hole, long known as Tom Moore's Jungle for the Irish poet who wrote here in 1804. The paths are unmarked and the caves in it are unlit.