A wooden bar built on a sandbar half a mile out at sea. No address, no menu, no rush. Possibly the best afternoon of your trip.
Floyd built it himself in 2001. He named it after the pelicans that hung around his fishing camp, then put up some scrap wood and a roof, and somehow turned it into one of the most photographed bars in the world. It sits half a mile off the south coast, on a shallow sandbar where the water comes up to your chest. You boat out, you wade up, you order a Red Stripe, and you don't move for three hours.
We do this as a half-day private tour from Negril (60-minute drive plus 20-minute boat ride). It's the kind of place that ruins normal bars for you afterwards.
The things worth doing, told straight by people who run this trip every week.
There is genuinely nothing else like it anywhere in the Caribbean. Wood floor on stilts, water all around you, fish swimming under the bar, your beer balanced on driftwood.
If you call ahead, Floyd's son Burton (or one of the other operators now running it) will catch and grill you a lobster while you swim. We arrange this in advance so it's ready when you arrive.
The water is shallow, clear, and full of small reef fish. You can swim away from the bar and snorkel in any direction. Good for kids.
If you time it right, you're at Pelican Bar as the sun sets behind the Treasure Beach hills. Hard to beat.
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