This lushly vegetated 25-hectare island is popular with local day-trippers on weekends – or it was, when the ferries ran.
In colonial days the British Navy used it to careen ships for repair. In the mid-20th century Errol Flynn bought the island and built a home that became a hotel, which later fell into decay. In early 2002 the Port Authority and the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) jointly took over the island with a view to developing the jaded property as an upscale resort and ecological theme park, but nothing has come of it so far. Talk to fishermen on the docks or, more reliably, the folks at Dickie’s Best Kept Secret ; they may be able to get you out here for a good day of stomping through the ruins.
