Qualla: Walker's Cay https://qualla.com/walker-s-cay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Walker's Cay https://qualla.com/walker-s-cay Walker's Cay: Introduction https://qualla.com/walker-s-cay/ Robert Abplanalp invented the modern aerosol valve - the tiny mechanism that makes every spray can on Earth work - and used the fortune it generated to buy a hundred-acre island at the top of the Bahamas. For decades, Walker's Cay was his private fishing paradise, a place where President Richard Nixon cast lines alongside Jane Fonda, Roger Daltrey, and Roger Staubach. Then Abplanalp died in 2003, two hurricanes obliterated the island's infrastructure in 2004, and the northernmost cay in the Bahamas sat abandoned for fourteen years. Its story is one of cycles: uninhabited, colonized, abandoned, developed, destroyed, and now - under new ownership - rising again.

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/b/7/walker-s-cay-wp/dkb7-walkers-cay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Walker's Cay: The Judge and the Pirates https://qualla.com/walker-s-cay/ Walker's Cay takes its name from Thomas Walker, a British judge dispatched to the northern Bahamas in the early 1700s to deal with the pirates who used the scattered cays as hideouts and staging grounds. What Walker accomplished during his tenure is lost to the gaps in colonial r...

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/b/7/walker-s-cay-wp/dkb7-walkers-cay-two-storms-total-destruction.mp3 0:06 4 full Walker's Cay: An Island Reborn https://qualla.com/walker-s-cay/ In April 2018, Texas businessman and philanthropist Carl Allen purchased Walker's Cay and announced plans to rebuild. Permitting negotiations with Bahamian authorities occupied much of 2019, but construction followed steadily. The marina reopened in 2021, and sportfishing tournam...

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