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* Nan putting on shoes after beach hike
* Cruise ships visiting their island escape
* Decaying old golf clubhouse
* Beach sea oats on our “private beach”
This is one of our favorite “hiking” islands . . . lots of small roads and trails, plus a three mile pristine beach hike that is world class. And, even though there are a few nice vacation escape homes for the very rich, essentially nobody is here except a few locals, and this is THE populated island of the Berry chain. There can’t be over a few hundred Bahamians in the Berrys. We did an 8 ½ mile walk one day. A couple of the smaller northern Stirrup Cays are operated by various private cruise lines like Royal Caribbean and NCL. The ships stop at their islands for the day to let passengers enjoy the beach, sail, windsurf, parasail, fish, and eat in their beach pavilion using the 500 beach recliners scattered for a half mile down the beach. It’s actually kinda fakey if you’re really wanting to experience the real Bahamas, but if you want first class tourism, it’s probably pretty cool. It is gorgeous sand & water, and best of all, it provides dependable jobs for many of the Berry locals. Many of them hop in their boats every morning and zip out of the harbors heading the 5-6 miles to the Stirrup Cays for work; then late afternoon, they come back home again.
Back in the 1960’s some Cuban speculators carved a cute little 9-hole golf course and built a neat “James Bond tuxedo & gowns” clubhouse & restaurant in Bullocks. It has long since folded. The clubhouse is falling down, however, a few of the rich vacation home owners have gotten together and hired a couple of locals to mow the golf course greens & fairways so they can continue to play it. It’s pretty rustic, but free. When I asked about it, people just said grab your clubs and go play, no problem. We crawled carefully through the old decaying clubhouse; it must have been guite elegant in it’s day.
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