Fowl Cays National Park Map

Fowl Cays National Park is a 2,335-acre protected Bahamian national park in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, established in 2009. It lies in the Sea of Abaco between Great Guana Cay and Man-O-War Cay, around a cluster of small, uninhabited cays, and like the country’s other national parks it is managed by the Bahamas National Trust. For boaters and divers in the Abacos, it is one of the most important and accessible reef systems in the region.

The park protects a mosaic of habitats: shallow coral reefs, rocky shores, and wide seagrass beds that serve as nurseries for young fish and feeding grounds for sea turtles. Its reefs are home to surgeonfish, grunts, parrotfish and many other species, along with endangered corals like staghorn and elkhorn, the great reef-builders of the Caribbean that have declined dramatically over the past half century. In 2017, a staghorn coral nursery was established in the park to help restore them.

In March 2024, a tugboat and barge carrying construction materials for the Bakers Bay development ran aground on the reef inside the park, during rough seas in the Man-O-War Cay channel. The vessels have remained stranded ever since, grinding against the reef and causing ongoing damage to one of the ecosystems the park was created to protect. I wrote in more detail about the Bakers Bay barge and tugboat wrecks and what they mean for the Fowl Cays.