A million thanks to Bruce Pinder of Da Salty Pig Adventures in Spanish Wells for allowing me to share these photos of GTC’s New Plymouth settlement with you.

As you can see, the devastation is widespread, and the residents of Green Turtle Cay (as well as the Abaco mainland, other Abaco cays and Grand Bahama) will need all the support they can get in the weeks, months and years ahead. Please help if you can. Here’s how.

Other Shore Club/Pineapples

Settlement Creek – BTC tower and Amy Roberts Primary School roof can be seen top right

Captain Sam’s

The Cash home

L-R – Cash house, Sea Heart, John Lowe Center and the Curry home/Island Property Mgmt

Right to Left: Shorty’s Cottage, Ma Mazie’s, Papa Pete’s

Back of Roland Roberts House (left) and the cottage formerly known as Pink Pearl/Momo’s

Facing east toward the school along Parliament Street – yellow house is the Roland Roberts House (one of only a handful of buildings to survive the 1932 hurricane) and peach building further down is the Miracle Church of God



Facing east along Parliament Street – at right foreground is the Post Office/Customs building

Building at left is the Albert Lowe Museum. We are very concerned about the broken upstairs window visible at the top left of this photo. Beneath that window is the museum’s photograph room, which holds many historic, irreplaceable images. I know that feeding and housing people has to come first, but if anyone could kindly board up that window, all of those involved with the museum would be incredibly grateful.

At far left is the back of the New Plymouth Inn.

The Treasure Chest Gift Shop (left) and New Plymouth Hardware (right) have been completely destroyed.

The Treasure Chest Gift Shop is at near left, with the Memorial Sculpture Garden and Golden Reef Apartments beyond

Many of the busts of the Memorial Sculpture Garden remain intact, but the centerpiece, sculpted by the late James Mastin, was damaged. Whether it can be repaired remains to be seen.

Gardens of the New Plymouth Inn

The view west along Parliament Street – Golden Reef Apartments and St. Peter’s Thrift Shop are at right.

Lowe’s Food Store

Gospel Chapel

The Sawyer home

The peach-coloured building at left is Roberts’ Hardware. Yellow building center of photo is Sid’s Groceries.

Sid’s Groceries’ Warehouse

Traditional island homes

The Sawyer home

The roof at center-right is the covered patio at Sundowners. Sadly, the enclosed part of the restaurant was destroyed.

Summer Breeze, home of our property managers. Sadly, their home has been destroyed and they have lost everything. Our hearts are broken for them, and for all our friends and family on Green Turtle Cay.

West end of the New Plymouth settlement – dinghy dock (at right) is gone

“Under the Buttonwood Tree” House

The Bahama Seas, a local crawfishing vessel, was blown ashore

One of many damaged or destroyed docks

St. Peter’s Anglican Church

Catechist Reckley Hall at St. Peter’s did not survive the storm

Dor-Will House

In the center of this photo is what remains of a cork tree that is very special to the people of Green Turtle Cay. Many of us played beneath it as children. Let’s hope our tree can rally one more time.

At left is the back of Hubert’s Cuts & Curls/home of Hubert Pinder, and at right is the back of the building that until recently housed Native Creations. The latter is one of the oldest remaining buildings on Green Turtle Cay, constructed during the American Civil War to store cotton smuggled from the American south destined for England.

Back of the Gospel Chapel Hall

In the background of this photo are the rears of the Golden Reef Apartments (turquoise building) and Lowe’s Food Store (far right)

Maranatha Cottage

Curry’s Sunset Grocery

Curry home/Island Property Management/Dean’s Shipping

Thank you again to Bruce Pinder for permitting me to use these images. I’m getting a lot of requests for photos taken beyond the New Plymouth Settlement (e.g., at Gillam Bay, in Bethel Estates and the north end of the cay.) Many of our residents and second homeowners who weren’t on the cay during the storm are desperate to see images of how their homes have fared.

If you have pictures you’d like to share, please get in touch.

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