🌿 Nature
The Nylon Pool
A waist-deep sandbar out at sea where every reef boat stops so you can stand in open water.
Typical duration
45 min
Price
Included in the reef boat fare
From port
14 km / 8.7 mi
Transfer time
35 min
Indoor / Outdoor
outdoor
Queue risk
medium
🕐 Best time to visit
Morning, at low tide when the sandbar is shallowest
The Nylon Pool is a shallow sandbar in the middle of the sea about a kilometre offshore, inside the shelter of Buccoo Reef, where the water is clear, warm and barely waist deep. Every reef boat stops here and the appeal is simple: you step off the boat into open ocean and find yourself standing on white sand with land nowhere near. Princess Margaret is said to have named it after the clarity of the water. Local lore claims a dip takes ten years off you, which the boat crews will tell you with a straight face while pouring rum punch.
Getting there from the port
Reached only by boat, as the second stop on the Buccoo Reef trip