Grand Bahama - East End of Island Drive

The driving tour from Freeport to McLeans Town at the east end of Grand Bahama Island is 50mi/80km in each direction. There are a pair of roads, one on the south coast and another along the middle of the island to make a circuit.

At 6mi/9km from Freeport, the road crosses the Grand Lucayan Waterway (lowest bridge 26ft/8m), built for the benefit of boaters.

The fishing villages of Freetown, High Rock and Pelican Point are strung along the coast as are Churchill, Fortune, Barbary, and Gold Rock beaches.

Lucayan National Park is adjacent to Gold Rock Beach. The inner reaches of the east end between Port Lucaya and the National Park are good for cycling, with the road being flat, wide and having little traffic.

At the tip of the island and end of the road is McLeans Town best noted for its annual conch-shell-cracking competition held on Discovery Day weekend, usually around October 12. Beyond McLeans Town are a number of Cays (islands), some inhabited, which require a boat to visit.