Jewel of The Bahamas
by DuaneHan on 03/10/09 at 6:27 am
Rum Cay is a small island that is 185 miles southeast of the main island of Nassau and is one of the outer island. The island was first inhabited by a native tribe called the Lacayan Indians and they occupied it during the Arawak period. After that lfeeing Loyalist found the island in the 1800’s and began building Salt pans and planting Pineapple plantations and the island had great prosperity and supported a population of around 5,000 people This came to an end in 1929 from a Hurricane that all but destoyed the industy. This pristine island is 30 miles square and is 9.5 miles long and five miles wide and is 130 feet above sea level.
Rum Cay is truly the JEWEL OF THE BAHAMA’S in so many ways with it’s white sugar sand beaches and beautiful blue green waters that are so clear you can see a quarter flicker to the bottom it truly makes this a place anyone could fall in love with. If it’s just to visit on vacation or for someone looking for a place to hang there hat and call it home. Rum Cay now days is a quite place with a slow small town type era to it with only 60 to 80 people living on the island. Today the main industry is tourism. Rum Cay offers some world class Bone fishing as well as some great Tuna, Dolphin, Barracuda and many others as well. It also offers for some of the best reef diving with Stage horn coral reefs that will take your breath away with all the color and fish it’s truly just magnificent. There is also some great surfing on the north side of the island also. For the most part the island is wildernes and offers some great opportunities for exploration with old Slave settlements ruins, caves and beaches and of course the waters. The island is just full of that old world charm and the people of the island are some of the most friendly people you will ever meet in your life. It is said that the island in the past was a pirate’s haven and they often stopped there. The island also has a new paved runway with a length of 4,500 feet long and 100 feet wide and is fenced in to keep the wildlife off of it. The island offers some fine dinning as with the OUT OF THE BLUE RESTAURANT as well as THE GREEN FLASH which is a little less formal dinning. and also KAY’S WHARF SIDE BAR & GRILL and the OCEAN VIEW BAR. Rum Cay is the perfect out of the way place for that vacation of a lifetime that you will fall in love with like i did when i lived there for 4 years on The Jewel Of The Bahama’s .
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