What you can see on the Green Turtle Cay cam
The camera looks from a bar on the waterfront, over the calm water of the bay to a long wooden dock reaching out from the shore and the low green line of the coast beyond. It is shown as a time-lapse of the last 24 hours, with the light and the weather changing over the water.
Green Turtle Cay waterfront
From a bar on the waterfront of Green Turtle Cay, this camera looks over the calm water of the bay to a long wooden dock reaching out from the shore and the low green line of the coast beyond, as a time-lapse of the last 24 hours.
Over a day, the replay shows the tide of boats at the dock, the passing showers and the colour of the water changing with the sky.
A Loyalist village
New Plymouth was founded in the 1780s by Loyalists, settlers who left the new United States to stay under the British Crown, and by the people they brought with them. Its streets, its museum and its memorial garden still tell that history. Hurricane Dorian, one of the strongest ever to hit the Bahamas, devastated the Abacos in September 2019, and the island has rebuilt since then.
When to watch Green Turtle Cay
The Bahamas keep the same clock as New York, with summer time from March to November. The water of the Sea of Abaco, between the cays and the main island, is usually calm; the hurricane season runs from June to November.
Nearby
The other cays of the Abacos, among them Man-O-War, Elbow Cay with its striped lighthouse and Great Guana, are reached by boat across the Sea of Abaco. Marsh Harbour, the main town of the region, is on Great Abaco.
Getting there
The island is reached by ferry from the Treasure Cay dock on Great Abaco, about 10 minutes across; Treasure Cay airport has flights from Florida and Nassau. There are few cars: visitors get around in golf carts, by bicycle and by boat.