Clean and well maintained, and dotted with vendors selling jerk food, it lies just to the east of Dragon Bay Beach, en route to Boston Bay Beach , within about a 25-minute drive from the center of Port Antonio.

The half-moon-shaped strip of sand attracts more islanders than foreign visitors, and as such, provides a sometimes-charming spectacle of contemporary Jamaican life. Yes, there's a colony of vendors selling souvenirs and crafts items, but they're generally acknowledged for being less aggressive and a lot more laid-back than the occasionally obnoxious vendors you're likely to encounter in, say, Ocho Rios.

Offshore is a dramatic reef of living coral teeming with marine life, attracting snorkelers to this beach, which has toilet facilities (none of which are particularly clean or well maintained) and changing rooms. During the day a boatman or two will, if you negotiate the price in advance, take you out on a bamboo raft or one of their small craft to a secluded little beach just around the headland; escape with a loved one if you find Winnifred too crowded.

No admission fee is charged for access to this famed and much-respected public beach. Technically, the address of this beach is "Fairy Hill," but even if the locals don't recognize that nomenclature, virtually everyone in and around Port Antonio will know how to direct you there.

Learn more about the campaign to keep Winnifred public here.