What Happened to Blue Water After Bar Rescue? (Jacksonville Beach, FL)

Blue Water, a bar in Jacksonville Beach, Florida bought by an owner with a track record of other successful businesses, was featured on the Bar Rescue episode "Fish Out of Blue Water," which aired July 15, 2018. The episode showed the owner's hands-off management style undermining a business he had otherwise invested heavily in, leaving staff without real direction and the bar's identity muddled. For the recon segment, the show brought in rapper Lil Jon and his team, who conducted the covert visit themselves while Taffer watched from outside.

Taffer's team rebuilt the bar's concept entirely, relaunching it as Sydney – An Australian Beach Club with a new drink program, decor, and food menu built around that theme. The rebrand did not hold up for long. According to Reality TV Updates, Sydney an Australian Beach Club did not pass an October 2018 health inspection after inspectors reported live rodents and droppings in multiple areas of the bar, a serious setback only months after the relaunch. According to that same fan site, the bar closed not long afterward, and the building was later torn down by the property's owner, leaving the original site vacant.

A Yelp listing for Sydney an Australian Beach Club at 205 1st St N, Jacksonville Beach, has the business listed as closed, with the page itself updated in May 2026, corroborating the fan site's account of a closure that has persisted for years rather than resolving. That evidence combines one fan-site account with a maps-style listing that also reports the business as closed. Altogether, according to Reality TV Updates, Blue Water's rebrand as Sydney an Australian Beach Club was short-lived: a serious health inspection problem followed the relaunch within months, and the bar closed soon after. The property was ultimately redeveloped, and no successor business is currently operating at the original address.