Bluefields Beach

South Coast · Westmoreland

Rating: 4.4 / 5

Bluefields Beach is a long curved public beach on Bluefields Bay in Westmoreland, on the road between Whitehouse and Savanna-la-Mar. The bay has calm, reef-sheltered water ideal for families, and the beach is lined with almond and seagrape trees that give plenty of natural shade. Local jerk shacks and fish vendors set up under the trees, and the fishing boats come in along the eastern end of the bay. Naturalist Philip Henry Gosse stayed here in the 1840s and wrote much of A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica from a cottage above the beach. It is a real local favourite — quieter than Negril and largely off the tourist trail.