Eagle Beach
White sand and shallow turquoise water on Aruba's widest beach, a 24/7 live webcam from a resort terrace.
About this view
A live webcam over Eagle Beach on Aruba's west coast, the island's widest stretch of sand and the one that regularly turns up on lists of the world's best beaches. The water shelves so gently here that people wade out a long way before it reaches their shoulders, which is why the shallows stay milky turquoise all day.
The frame fills and empties on a resort rhythm: loungers claimed early, the beach at its fullest through the middle of the day, then a long slow thinning towards the evening. Cruise passengers land at Oranjestad, ten minutes down the coast by taxi, so a ship in port shows up on the sand within the hour. Aruba's famous fofoti trees, bent permanently west by the trade wind, stand further along the beach.
The wind is the constant: it blows almost every day and keeps the heat bearable (UTC−4, no daylight saving). Sunset lands straight in front of the camera, and the island sits below the hurricane belt, so the season that troubles the rest of the Caribbean mostly passes it by.
