Ivan's White Bay Campground

British Virgin Islands


The 2017 hurricanes obliterated Ivan's cabins, kitchen, bathhouse and bar, and also the site's foliage: you can still camp here, but it'll be a scorcher. Sea-grape trees and fixed tents are planned for coming years. At research time there was just one (inexplicably carpeted) beachfront cabin, which cost double the rate of the old ones and was only marginally better.


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