Harbour Island

Off the coast of Eleuthera, Harbour Island offers excellent hotels and food, picket fences, and pastel-colored houses that evoke Cape Cod. The beaches on Harbour Island are famed for their pink sand, tinted that color by crushed coral and shells. Another offshore island near Eleuthera, Spanish Wells has extremely limited accommodations, and the residents – […]

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Grand Bahama

Grand Bahama, in the northern Bahamas, is the second most popular tourist destination among the Islands of The Bahamas. Freeport has the largest and most modern container port in the region and Grand Bahama island also is home to some fascinating natural areas like the Rand Nature Centre, the Lucayan National Park and the Garden […]

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Exuma

Just 56km (35 miles) southeast of Nassau, this 588km (365-mile) long string of islands and cays – most of them uninhabited – is the great yachting hub of The Bahamas, rivaling or even surpassing Abaco. These waters, some of the prettiest in The Bahamas, are also ideal for fishers (bonefishers especially). Many secluded beaches open […]

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Eleuthera

Eleuthera means “freedom” – freedom from crowds, cruise ships, casinos, and the chaos of everyday life. Long and slender, this most historic of the Out Islands (the first English settlers arrived here in 1648) is actually a string of islands that includes Spanish Wells and Harbour Island, a chic destination. Eleuthera has remained largely undeveloped […]

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Cat Island

With a skinny, eel-like shape, Cat Island, Bahamas, is only a few miles wide and 77km (48 miles) long. It’s a lush, sleepy island in the southern Bahamian backwater, a great place to get away from it all. Cat Island has an estimated population of 1,647. The main settlements are Arthurs’s Town, Orange Creek and […]

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