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Friday Happy Hour: Gully Wash Does a Body Good

Remember last week’s featured rum drink made with British Black Tea? If you thought that was unusual, then how about this combo: gin, coconut water and… condensed milk.
With apologies to our lactose intolerant readers who have no doubt stopped reading this, the uncommon marriage of these three disparate liquids forms quite the potent and tasty libation… No really!
Known collectively as a Gully Wash (I hear it’s also called Sky Juice), this drink is found throughout The Bahamas. I enjoyed the one pictured here at Billy Joe’s Beach Bar on Grand Bahama Island where all the drinks are particularly strong.

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On-Site Grand Bahama: Billy Joe’s Beach Bar

Billy Joe's on the beach at Our Lucaya/SBPR

When visiting large, sprawling resorts in the Caribbean’s most popular tourist destinations, humble beach shack bars like the one pictured here are not only far from your mind, they’re also usually far away. Imagine my surprise, then, at finding this place located about 15 paces from the pool deck at the far western end of the 1,200-room Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort.
Billy Joe’s Restaurant & Bar is a local institution in Grand Bahama. I first heard of it from a journalist friend soon after my PR agency signed Our Lucaya as our latest PR account this past summer, but details were sketchy as the writer last traveled to Grand Bahama 10 years ago.

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On-Site Grand Bahama: Wednesday Night Fish Fry at Smith’s Point

We here at Uncommon Caribbean are all about dispelling the popular “tourist trap” myth that too often and too broadly characterizes travel to our home region. Sure some islands are more “touristy” than others, but I can honestly say that in all my travels to some 30 or so Caribbean destinations, I’ve never failed to find an authentic West Indian experience.
The latest touristy destination to surprise me: Grand Bahama Island.
I made my first trip to Grand Bahama last month soon after my PR agency won the Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort account. I knew a lot about the resort, a sprawling destination unto itself with 1,200 rooms spread over two separate hotels, but nothing about the island.

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