Driving Directions to Rum Point

[drew sailbum]

It's time to update directions to Rum Point. Just some slight changes, so here we go.

 

Most car rental agencies are at the airport, and I am assuming the reader is leaving from that area.

Turn right from the parking lot of the rental agency. This should put you on Owen Roberts Drive heading back the way you came to the rental agency. Keep going until you come to a mini-roundabout. The post office is immediately on your left. You have a give way sign (yield, in island-speak) so look to your right and once clear you can...

 

Turn left onto Dorcy Drive. The road curves around to your right and you pass Foster's Food Fair grocery on your right (Easy access for grocery and adjacent liquor store, if needed.) and you should see the end of the airport runway on your left. Keep going until you reach the mini-roundabout.

 

Stay left at the mini-roundabout and that puts you on Crewe Road which leads you around the end of the airport runway.

 

Turn left and merge into traffic continuing around the end of the airport runway. You should see a Texaco gas station on your right. (Note that for any refueling you need later.) You are still on Crewe Road. Continue straight ahead (more than a mile) until you reach a large roundabout.

 

Continue straight through the roundabout, taking the first exit, and you are still on Crewe Road. You should see a Texaco gas station on your left and a large Baptist Church on the right. Continue (about a half of a mile) to the next roundabout.

 

Continue straight through the roundabout (at the roundabout is a shopping center with a Hurley's Supermarket) and the road changes names. You are now on Shamrock Road. Continue straight ahead and get in the left lane. Go past an On the Run gas station and the Red Bay Primary School on your left. You will pass the Cayman Islands Brewery on your right.

 

(OOPS. Think you're lost? Are you on a road with two lanes in each direction and a tiny centre concrete median? It doesn't really matter. Go on to the next roundabout - it's the same Prospect roundabout mentioned below - and take the third left exit (not the second as mentioned in second paragraph below). You're now back on track. NOTE: For the return drive you will have to take this route back. )

 

Get in the right lane (left lane becomes turn only into a residential area) and continue straight. The road curves to the right and quickly you come to a roundabout.

 

Continue straight through the Prospect roundabout (it's the second left out of the roundabout) and you are still on Shamrock Road. In the next half mile you will see two large condo complexes on your right. Continue straight about 3 miles or so until you come into Savannah. You should see a Wendy's on the right and a Texaco just past it.

 

(OOPS. Think you're lost? Are you on a road with one lane in each direction and a large center median? If so, you took a wrong turn at that last roundabout. Don't worry. Go to the next roundabout and turn right. Go until you have to turn, and turn left. You're now back on track.)

 

Continue straight. This seems like a weird intersection - it's almost a roundabout. Just past the intersection should pass a Domino's Pizza on your right and a long line of tall palm trees on your left. You are still on Shamrock Road. Go straight several miles!!!

 

Continue straight and you pass through Lower Valley and eventually arrive in Bodden Town. The road changes names as you enter Bodden Town and you are now on Bodden Town Road.

 

Continue straight through Bodden Town and keep going. The speed limit increases to 50 miles per hour and eventually drops back to 30 mph as you enter Breakers a few miles later. In Breaker's you will see the Lighthouse restaurant at the end of the short straightaway of road right by the sea.

 

One mile past the Lighthouse Restaurant turn left onto Frank Sound Road. This is a major intersection. You are now crossing the island from south to north. Pass the fire station on your left. A few miles later the speed limit drops to 25 and the road takes some sharper curves as you enter Old Man Bay.

 

Stay on the road as it curves around to the left as you pass the Esso gas station. The road changes names to North Side Road. Go straight, and you will occasionally see the ocean on your right. Pass the Over the Edge Restaurant on your right.

 

Rum Point is about 6.5 miles ahead on your right. The road will change names one more time and become Rum Point Drive before you get there.

 

 

 

General notes:

 

Speed limit signs are European style - black numbers in a red circle - but are posted in miles per hour. Some rental cars have speedometers which only measure in kilometers per hour.

 

We drive on the left. Look to your right for any oncoming traffic at intersections.

 

Left on red after a stop is permitted unless posted otherwise at traffic lights and stop signs.

 

Most major intersections are controlled by roundabouts. Give way to traffic already in the roundabout.

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