Freeport Grand Bahama Travel Guide - Best Bahamas Excursion - Gold Rock Beach - Kayaking - Gardens

Today we are in Grand Bahama. We're going to show you a great tour to do when you're staying here or visiting. It's the kayak tour where you go to Gold Rock Beach, went to Garden of the Groves. The kayaking is amazing. We're going to show you in this video what it is like and welcome to Grand Bahama Island. And also make sure you like and subscribe to Along for the Journey. We got a lot of stuff coming for you. Lots more boardwalk videos, lots more cruise stops and cruise ship reviews. Don't miss any of these travel videos. Let's get right into it and show you what it's like in Grand Bahama in the number one excursion in my opinion. We've been here many times. This one takes the cake. Here we are getting off the cruise ship, Grand Bahama. Lakaya National Park where Gold Rock Beach is and where you kayak. Look at this road. This is Lakaya National Park. This is the road you come on and it is like straight. Straightest road you will see and it just goes and goes. And then across the street you got the white line carpets and the beach. This is the mangrove ecosystem. Here we are kayaking at Gold Rock Beach. We're going to start in the mangroves. You can see we're all getting in our kayaks and it's going to be a great day. The sun is out. What else could you want? Peaceful. Here we go. We're off the beautiful, beautiful mangroves. I'll put the camera down here. Look how clear this water is. Simply amazing. This is nothing. Wait till we get to Gold Rock Beach. I told you this is one of the best things to do in Grand Bahama. Gold Rock Beach and throw in kayaking. We got the navigator up front here pulling the whole boat. One thing I didn't realize is if you do this excursion they are two-person kayaks. So if you want to do an individual one I didn't see at where they have those but this is just as much fun. Just listen to how peaceful it is. A little clear water. So, so peaceful out here. All kinds of scenery too. This is our tour guide over here. Great tour guide too. Bus driver. The history we've learned coming down here in the bus was amazing. You got it honey? All right, you can see from the hurricane damage here it kind of leveled the top of the mangroves. They're just starting to bounce back. You can see some of the leaves. My wife is driving this boat through these narrow canals and at some point it's going to be super narrow. We got to break down the paddles and then we become a canoe. See how narrow it gets here. This is where it becomes challenging. Okay, I have left my husband take over because we're in the very narrow part. So the paddles have been broken down and he's now canoeing. I'm kind of trying to watch trees and stuff. Are you going to turn us? Honey, no. Go right a little bit or I'm going to end up. There you go. That's good. Tour guide's talking about the mangroves and here we are coming up to the ocean. This is where you dock. Transportation, catering, background. They used to come this way and all the trails that they used to go through got damaged during the hurricane. So they kind of changed locations more in the city now. This is Gold Rock Beach. This is what we came for to the Grand Bahama. Right here is where we're kayaking through the mangroves. Most beautiful beach in the world. In fact, it's ranked number five most beautiful beach on the planet and you're going to see some stunning video here of this water, the beach. We just got off the kayaking tour and stopped at Gold Rock Beach. You literally can see how beautiful this place is. It is stunning. You can see there's just hardly anybody here. Amazing. This is what makes Gold Rock Beach unique. The tide pools. You look at all these waves. Incredible. Beautiful or what? There's my wife walking in the sand. We were picking starfish out of here last time. What makes it unique? You can literally walk way out into that water before it even gets deep and this is why you come at low tide. A sea fan that is out of the water. Crazy, right? Gold Rock Beach. Number one Grand Bahama. It doesn't get any better than this for beaches. Here is the Garden of the Groves map. You can see there's a lot of stuff to do here if you're spending the day off the cruise ship and Freeport's a short stop anyway. Might be worth stopping here. Check this place out. Garden Groves. Bonus on the kayak tour. Great little snack bar here. Place to hang out. What did you have, honey? Four little babies on the tree. I see it. Check out all the pans they got here. This place is pretty big. There is even a church here. And that was Grand Bahama. Don't miss these tours. Kayaks, Garden of the Groves and Gold Rock Beach.