Best Tour in Freeport - #1 Excursion - Freeport Grand Bahama Ultimate Guided Island Tour

Hey, can you hear me wherever you are? I'm praying to angels and wishing on stars that we'll find each other no matter how far. Cuz 5,000 miles is breaking my heart. All right, good morning. We're just sailing into Freeport, Bahamas. I got a tour today that we booked through Vitor. One of my favorite places. This is That's all we book through Vitor. But today, we're going to one of the best beaches in the world. 360 honey in the water. Gold Rock Beach. So beautiful. My favorite spot. And we're going to some national park and a couple of other things. Let's just get there and get on with this tour because I can't wait to show you. There's a lot to do in Freeport. Check all of my videos out. Oh, here's also another fun fact. If you don't want to leave the port, one of my favorite drink places is down here. And they got great conchk fritters. I'll probably show you that towards the end of this video. This is what you avoid on this private tour. You see all these people waiting to get on the cruise ship tours. We got a small group today. That's what you want with a VIA tour. Okay. Anybody interested in swimming with the pigs today as an expediation on our island is uh 40,000. This is the side of the island now that suffered the most damage. All right, this is where site very beautiful celebration key is. Very beautiful strip of beach. All right, one of your stops here is Laayen National Park. There's a couple caves and he's going to give us a tour here. Check these caves out. This connects from the open ocean here, which is the pine forest. This is one of the largest underground map systems in the world. This was mapped for us back in the 70s by Jacqu Kustoau himself and his team. All right. This is the entrance way to Gold Rock Beach when you're at the Lukaya National Park. Gold Rock is actually along the coast. This is all new here. And one thing I will tell you, it is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Everybody ever askked us what beach is the nicest we've ever been to, it's always Gold Rock Beach. And things are well marked here to see a little bit of what the the native vegetation is. We had to come here. We had a program going on where we planted over 30,000 mangroves and we're still in the process of doing so. All right. Over here, if you see these buses, one of the best tours we've ever did, and I got a whole video on it, is kaying through Gold Rock Beach. That's what these people are ready to do. Get in the river and kayak. It was one of the most incredible experiences we've ever had in the Bahamas. This is said about these people here all helped with the restoration process after the hurricane hit here. Get all the fish. No fishing allowed in the park. But this is where the Indians would have come to catch their fish. This is right here why you do a private tour in Freeport, Bahamas. Again, I got links to this. It's called the Mama Gal Native Experience Tour. It's in our Via tour store. This path leads you straight to the ocean. Back in the day when the English ruled this part of the world, this was their shipping lane. They charged every ship to traverse the Bahama waters. That's how they made their money. But the the biggest thing was to get from Europe to south south or Latin America, they had to go through the Bahama waters. Now, this is Gold Rock Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. I'm going to show you. We're We're here at high tide. So, you're not going to see what you can, but I'm going to throw some video in here because I got video here of low tide. This is a park you'd really want to see when the tide is out because you can walk 100 ft, 200 ft out into that ocean. This is what Gold Rock is about. The sand bars. You're at our famous beach, honey. My favorite beach. I don't know if you can see. Well, way down there. Your Celebration Key fans, you can see some cranes down there. That's Celebration Key opening in July. made the sun shining off the water. And usually when you come here, there's not many people here. That's what makes it nice. This little rock out here supposedly that is called gold rock. And when pur people first settled here, they're saying that that was covered in gold. I don't know about that, but it's a great story. 360 honey in the water. Gold rock beach. So beautiful. Yes. My favorite spot. Oh, spectacular. I'll show you a water booger just to show you how clear this water is. And you'll come here many different times. We've seen conchk and we've picked starfish out of here. Like I said, you'll find anything here. This is a sea fan that floated up on the beach. All right, now we're heading back across to Laaya National Park where the caves are. But you can see how this pathway meanders through this vegetation. Put on his tank. He was a master diver and explored the the cave. He also accompanied Jacusto himself when he came to map the system. All fresh water for 6 ft. Then it connects with the salt water. Salt water is heavy, so it sinks. We're inside that cave. There's a couple caves at Laaya National Park. You see the fish. And do you see the clarity of the water? Beautiful in here. And that is why we have such a very large cement manufacturing factories. Got a couple of them here on the island. takes away the sinus and any mucus that you might have in your airways. And this guy's Charlie. He is giving a complete tour of this place. Going over all the herbs, tasting different things. He knows what he's talking about. True Bohemian. If you notice, our soil is very sandy. Sandy soil does not produce good coffee. So, we don't brag about coffee in the Bahamas. We brag about rum. Laya National Park is farther back than I thought. Those bats that I was telling you about that comes to the to Ben's cave. This is what they look like. They, you know, of course, they're upside down. Flower bats. They migrate here from April until the end of August. This is the burial mounds cave. Burial mounds cave is the cave where the Lucayian Indians remains were found. Big fus tree here. This is in the fig family. It produces a small fig. It's also edible. There's all kinds of trails through here. They give you some free time on this tour just to explore on your own. Now, on this tour, you will also get a beach stop. We're stopping at Cleveland's Beach Club. I think the other one they do is rumor bar or something like that. Crack conchk, fish fried, drinks. It's all here. All right. This is what you see when you come out. Beautiful little beach here. And it looks like they're selling some things. This beach is massive. I don't know. Can you picture yourself here all day? I might be going up there to get something to eat because I'm hungry. You could walk for miles on this beach. Stunning views. There's my wife. I don't know where she's going. Oh, and they got some water sports here also. But what's got my attention is the fish fry. Let's go see what they got at the restaurant. There's a little bit of a straw market, but what I want to see is this view over here. There's a couple tables over here. There's the straw market stuff right here at this little restaurant area. Khalif beer. This is a local beer the Bahamas made right here. Look at these things here. They watch these things race into the water, man. And you can actually get in the water and feed them. There they go back to their homes. But ultimately, no matter how good this is, it makes it better with a view like this. Is this beach paradise or what? I can't say enough about this stop. But now it's time to get to Port Laaya Marketplace. Welcome to Port Laaya Marketplace, Grand Bahama. Last stop here. All right, the last stop on this tour is Marketplace at Port Laaya. Look at all these straw market places here. They're up and down this place. There is so much here to see. See what else and be prepared. They will try to pull you into every single one of these shops. And one thing that's nice about the marketplace, they got a drugstore here for anything that you might have forgot when vacationing or coming in on a cruise ship. Lots of shopping here, as you can tell. Look at the color of the buildings. Each building's a different color in here. I got a whole couple of videos on this place, so make sure you're watching all our Grand Bahama videos. I probably got like six or seven out there. But this tour again, this we did through Via Tour. Link below. See what I mean about all these colored buildings? Candy Cap Captain's Popcorn Factory back here. All right, this is what I came back for. Zorbas at the end of this place is a bakery. Back this way and around the corner. But Zorba's got great food, too. Santorini's Ice Cream Store, Cafe, and Delhi. This is it. If you're here, get here early because they got the best coconut cookies you will ever have. There's a maritime museum usually right here. Yeah, the Bahama Marina Museum. But you walk back behind all this stuff. Usually you'll see some cool boats. Right there's a gecko, t-shirts, hats, everything. Right up here's another cool place. This used to be I don't know if it's still here. Photo op. Look at all the coconuts. This is a place, the panina colada place. Great place to go. And they got also these little little barns I'll call them, that have handcrafted stuff through as well. Island Diva Creative Design. But up here is Island Yogurt. A yogurt place. There's the popcorn factory. Let's just mosey in here. Look at all the flavors they have here. Skinny Pop drizzled cotton candy. That's a lot of popcorn. If you got a sweet tooth, come in here. They got free samples. I'm getting the coconut rum. All right. You want to do shots? This place, we usually get something here, but cuz they got all kinds of different flavors. All right. And if you like conchk or never had conchk, try Daddy Brown's conchk stand. It's behind the marketplace here by the water. Right here's a tourist information booth. That's right back by the water. Tours and excursions. There's another bar, Rum Runners Bar and Grill. Again, a lot of the bars are back towards the water edge. Lots of jewelry places in here, too. All right, this is how you finish the day with some con fritters and two pinina coladas. Those pinina coladas are from Maxis. Where are these from? ANS. ANS. It's right next to Maxis. You can see right there is a cruise ship. How close we are. All right, it's time to get back to the cruise ship. I want to say a special thanks to our tour guide, Charlie. Very knowledgeable guy. If you're coming to Grand Bahama, this is a tour you want to consider. Even for experienced cruisers like us, we've been here 15 times to Grand Bahama. We learned so much from Charlie. And I got links to this tour on my VIA tour page. So, if you want to book this exact tour, go to the description and book this thing. [Music] Wherever you are, I'm praying to angels and wishing on stars that will find