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Title
Pirates Rest Rental Villa on Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, The Bahamas
Description
The village of New Plymouth, located on the southern tip, is home to hundreds of people. There are three grocery stores, a post office and other government buildings, hardware stores, gift shops, restaurants, bars and grills, a seafood market, bakery, liquor store, bank, historic sites and a sculpture garden. There is also a variety of churches.
evolutionary War Loyalists who first settled the island. New Plymouth is home to Alton Lowe, a Bahamas Premier artist, who opens his private museum to the public periodically during the year. Key West, Florida is the Sister City to New Plymouth and many of the residents there can trace their roots to early settlers from New Plymouth who left the Cay, with their homes on sailing barges, in the 1830’s. As late as 1912, 60% of the residents of Key West were Bahamian seafarers. New Plymouth, with its pastel painted clapboard cottages with white picket fences and stone walls, is reminiscent of a New England fishing village of the past. The early settlers became skillful seamen and boat builders, and passed these crafts down through the generations.
Green Turtle Cay is aptly named for its numerous Atlantic-side coves, once the breeding grounds for hundreds of green turtles, now scarce and on the protected species list. Pirates once know these gentle creatures as “belly timber” because, as a convenient source of fresh meat during long weeks at sea, turtle meat gave strength and energy to the crews of the pirate vessels.
Languages
English
