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Deep Water Cay (MYXZ) is a private airstrip on the remote eastern end of Grand Bahama Island, built to serve the celebrated Deep Water Cay fishing lodge. A single hard-surfaced runway of just over three quarters of a mile serves light aircraft bringing anglers to one of the Caribbean's best-known bonefishing destinations, set among the flats and mangrove cays of the Bahamas' East Grand Bahama District.
Deep Water Cay is a small private aerodrome built to serve the fishing lodge of the same name, located on the remote eastern tip of Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas. It is of interest to the simulator pilot chiefly as a short, characterful island strip with a single runway set amid the flats and cays that made the resort famous, offering an approach over open water and shallow banks typical of the Out Islands.
The airfield lies within the East Grand Bahama District, on the very private east end of Grand Bahama Island, well removed from the more developed western part of the island and from Freeport's controlled airspace. It sits amid a network of flats, mangrove creeks and small cays that characterise this part of the Bahamas, with the open Atlantic and the Little Bahama Bank close by.
Deep Water Cay has a single physical runway, 14/32, of hard surface construction and 4155 feet in length. There is no ILS.
No published radio frequency, callsign or instrument approach information is available for this field, and it should be treated as an uncontrolled strip without instrument approach facilities.
Deep Water Cay was created in 1958 by angling legend Gil Drake together with Field & Stream editor A.J. McClane, establishing what became one of the most celebrated bonefishing lodges in the Bahamas and the wider Caribbean (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdorsey/2020/05/29/remembering-the-ultimate-bonefish-destination/). Over the following decades the club attracted a roster of well-known anglers, including Ted Williams, Joe Brooks, Curt Gowdy and Lefty Kreh, cementing its reputation in shallow-water angling history (https://leisuretimetravel.com/deep-water-cay-club/). The property changed ownership in late 2009 and underwent major modernisation of its structures and equipment after decades of operation (https://leisuretimetravel.com/deep-water-cay-club/). The lodge and its surrounding community later suffered severe hurricane damage, prompting relief efforts for the guides and staff whose livelihoods depended on the operation (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdorsey/2020/05/29/remembering-the-ultimate-bonefish-destination/).
The airstrip continues to serve the Deep Water Cay resort, which offers guided bonefishing, permit and offshore fishing across the surrounding flats and cays, with access to guides, skiffs and lodge accommodation on site (https://www.angleradventures.com/bahamas/deep-water-cay-club/, https://worldcastanglers.com/worldcast-anglers-destination-travel/deep-water-cay-bahamas-fly-fishing/). As a private facility serving the lodge, pilots should expect that prior permission is required before flying in, though no further operational details, fuel availability or opening hours are published.