Family 4 Afloat: Driving around Great Harbour Cay island

Jeep for the day

Above is our transportation for the day - a small, barely 4 passenger jeep with no radio, no a/c, manual drive, and no shocks or power steering. But this is an adventure!! So, with very basic map in hand (streets have no names), we started off by first getting gas for the jeep. It was on empty, so we told the guy to put 10 gal in it - it only took 7.5. There only one place on the island to get fuel - for your boat or car, same place. Fuel tank full, we set off for the east side of the island and the road that traverses the entire 7 mile length of the island. Except for occasional houses on the east side sitting on the beach, there is not much to see.

We stopped at Sugar Caves beach access and walked down to the beach. Beautiful! Since the weather has been very windy lately, the water on the east coast is very choppy and lot of seaweed has washed up on shore, and the waves were crashing heavily over the rocks. We did enjoy exploring them, though, we could not go in the cave. From there, we drove out toward the airport (small commuter planes land here) and across the street to Beach Club ocean side restaurant. There was a wonderful breeze, and we were able to cool off with cold drinks sitting by the ocean (temps are still high 80's here). After a delicious lunch, we set off to check out the "town" area on the west side of the island. A couple grocery stores (very small), a couple small restaurants, a school, a couple churches - that's it! Quaint, quiet island.

We returned back to the marina (which is also where rented our jeep). We had been gone 3 hours (including time for lunch and beach), and barely used any of the gas we had put in the car! A fun adventure.