Friars is one of our favorite beaches and we’ve spent a lot of island days there. In all our many days I only once smelled anything out of the ordinary and that was a brief thing. As we walked through the restaurant they had what I think was incense burning. We always eat at FBBC and rent their chairs. Should you decide to go there remember they are on the pricier side for FB and they don’t do credit cards. From what I understand there are now three restaurants on FB. We use the old rutted road to FBBC and park right there behind their restaurant and closest to the Happy Bay side of the beach as oppose3 to the road that goes by Gutside Restaurant.