Admiralty Bay is one of the finest natural harbours in the eastern Caribbean, and Port Elizabeth — the small town along its eastern shore — exists largely because of it. The bay is deep and sheltered, and in high season it fills with cruising yachts from across the Atlantic, giving the waterfront a cosmopolitan feel quite disproportionate to the island's size.
The best way to appreciate the bay is from the waterfront path that runs through Port Elizabeth: bars and restaurants look out over the water, dinghy traffic moves back and forth between the yachts and the dinghy dock, and the model boats displayed in the craft shops are scaled-down versions of the real thing floating a hundred metres away.