This tiny unspoiled island in the British Virgin Islands is a beautiful five mile trip across the Sir Francis Drake Channel from Tortola on the Cooper Island Beach Club boat. There are white sand beaches, no roads and only four privately owned properties on the island, plus the small beach club resort. The climate is almost perfect with balmy tropical breezes. You'll see coconut palms, bougainvillea, frangipani, yucca, orchids and other exotic plants on the island and a nice variety of birds.

Swim, snorkel, scuba, kayak, fish, hike and explore the whole island or just lie on the beach and relax. The best snorkeling is right off your beach. You'll be amazed at the wide variety of sea life you'll see right there. Soak up the sunshine on the white sand beach or relax with a cold drink under your own palm tree and watch the yachts sail by in the Sir Francis Drake Channel. But if you want more to do, you can take a day sail or rent a rigid inflatable dinghy with motor to explore other islands or to water ski. All of this can be arranged at the Sea Grape Boutique on Cooper.

Stroll down your private path to the Beach Club for cocktails, lunch or dinner. Cooper Island is very relaxing and you will leave with a sense of peace.

Cooper Island Beach Club is a small resort on Manchioneel Bay on the north west corner of Cooper Island. Cooper Island is approximately one and a half miles long by a half mile wide, and lies about five miles south of Tortola, the largest island in the British Virgin Islands, which are sixty miles east of Puerto Rico. Apart from the Beach Club and its staff, there is one local family, five holiday houses and lots of goats on the island. Manchioneel Bay is a good overnight anchorage, and the Beach Club is well known by many of the visiting yacht charterers who are attracted each year to the natural beauty and friendliness of these Caribbean islands. Originally a private house, the Beach Club was renovated and expanded in 1980, and has now been operated continuously by us for over twenty-three years. Our beach front restaurant and bar offers one of the best sunset views in the islands, and we have built a reputation for serving quality meals in an informal setting, at a reasonable price.

For SCUBA divers, the BVI has some of the best diving in the world, with comfortable sea temperatures year round, and over 60 charted dive sites, many within a recently established underwater National Park system. Dive sites include vertical walls, underwater pinnacles, coral reefs, caverns and wrecks.