Dominica’s Batibou Beach has been featured in FlightNetwork’s ‘The World’s Best Beaches for 2018’.
The travel site is said to have collected insight from over 1200 journalists, editors, bloggers, and agencies, who know all things travel, to compose the shortlist ‘Central America and the Caribbean’s Top 50 Beaches’, on which Batibou Beach is featured at #34.
The private beach, located in the northern parish of St. Andrew, is described as a “little paradise,” where visitors are invited to marvel at its “untouched beauty” while enjoying exotic treats such as coconuts and rum punch.
The destination, which boasts “fine golden sand” and “clear blue waters,” is said to entice snorkelers with its “vibrant underwater display.”
Batibou Beach is revered for its “sheer untouched beauty,” for which it received a 9 out of 10 rating.
https://www.flightnetwork.com/worlds-best-beaches/top-50-central-america-caribbean-beaches/
There should be no private beaches, all beaches should have public access. However the surrounding lands may be privately owned.
The beach, as a public beach, should have public access. If it is indeed such a great beach, and it appears to be such, the government should be and is responsible for keeping up the road to that beach, and the owners of the surrounding areas are acting against the law in charging a fee to use of the access road.
Just some of my thoughts.
Unfortunately, not an easily accessed and heavily patronized beach by Dominicans.
The beach is beautiful but sadly it is too hard to access and the owners don’t bother fixing the road. IF they fixed the road, they would make some nice change.
Does everything have to be about money? why cant you say lets try to make it last keep it clean appoint a care taker for that place so people don’t litter lets make it more beautiful.
The owners of the property should convince Skerrit to have a hotel built there…not too late
Why would you want the Government to build a hotel on private property?
Come to the Nature Isle where God and man meeting. Perfect place for Easter Pilgrimage 2019 and for holistic transformation.
I am not sure what you mean when you say a private beach. I thought all beaches in Dominica was open to the public. Please educate me I am from Dominica but resides in Guam.
This is just beyond my imagination. How could a beach be PRIVATE? Man really wants to dominate nature. That’s one reason we have soooo many problems in the earth.
In Skerrits Dominica everything is possible. The owners of this beach property are the Douglas family from Portsmouth. They even charge people for using the road down to the beach saying the money is for keeping up the road. Of course this is just BS because the road is in an appalling condition. You virtually need a tank to go up and down. Laws in DA have no meaning in particular if when it comes to a family with a member being a minister of this rogue regime
Great! Now we need to capitalize on the publicity and make some money for the citizens of this country.
I love Dominica and hope the government can protect its natural beauty and help its people do well with tourism.