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Sugar Beach Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands

Sugar Beach is consistently rated among the finest beaches in The Bahamas — and for good reason. The sugar-white sand, dramatic limestone caves, and remnants of a 1960s celebrity resort make this stretch of Great Harbour Cay feel like a secret worth the effort to reach. Sugar Beach is consistently rated among the finest beaches in The Bahamas. Emily’s Take What makes Sugar Beach special? Fine white sand, shallow sea caves you can walk into at low tide, and the evocative ruins of a resort that once hosted Cary Grant and Brigitte Bardot. The trade-off: no facilities, no shade,

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Winding Bay Eleuthera and Its Nearly Empty Shoreline

The sand at Winding Bay North Beach is soft and pale, sloping so gently into the Atlantic that the water stays shallow for yards. The ocean shifts from pale aqua near the shore to deep cerulean farther out, and on a weekday in late spring you might share that whole stretch with no one. Eleuthera, the narrow finger-shaped island that holds this beach, has miles of shoreline that see very few footprints, but Winding Bay stands out even here as a place where the quiet feels deliberate. Winding Bay North Beach presents a less-traveled alternative to its more bustling

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Cocoplum Beach the Eleuthera Spot That Photographs Itself

The wooden swings at Coco Plum Beach rise straight out of the turquoise shallows, planted in the sandy bottom a few yards from shore. They are the kind of image that stops thumbs mid-scroll — a single seat suspended over water so clear you can see every ripple of the sandy floor beneath. For travelers chasing that shot, this beach in the Exumas near Blow Hole Cay delivers it without filters. Famous wooden swings of the Bahamas rise up from the shallows just offshore. Visitors take a seat on the swings, snap pictures, and watch the likes stream in.

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Great Guana Cay’s Beach Bar That Abaco Sailors Never Miss

Perched on a dune overlooking the Atlantic, Nipper’s Beach Bar & Grill has been drawing Abaco sailors for decades. The frozen “Nipper” cocktail — a rum-based concoction blended with tropical fruits from a vaguely secret recipe — is a rite of passage for anyone who drops anchor off Great Guana Cay. The frozen “Nipper” cocktail is a rite of passage for anyone who drops anchor off Great Guana Cay. Emily’s Take Abaco sailors never skip Nipper’s because it sits at the center of a perfect full-day loop: morning reef snorkel, lunch at the mellower Grabbers, an afternoon beach walk

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Moriah Harbour Cay Where Exuma’s Wildlife Goes Untouched

In 2002, a grassroots campaign led by an avid birdwatcher named Basil Minns turned a stretch of undeveloped Exuma coastline into one of The Bahamas’ most significant protected areas — 22,833 acres of it. 22,833 acres of protected marine and terrestrial habitat — established 2002, expanded 2015. Moriah Harbour Cay National Park doesn’t have a welcome centre yet (one is planned at The Ferry on Little Exuma). What it does have: pristine beaches, sand dunes, blue holes, coral reefs, mangrove creeks, coppice forests, and seagrass meadows that have supported the communities of Rolle Town, Hartswell, The Ferry, The Cottage,

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Little Farmer’s Cay Home to the Bahamas Smallest Big Festival

Every February, the tiny Exuma island of Little Farmer’s Cay — home to roughly 60 permanent residents — swells with hundreds of visiting sailors, families, and homecomers for a weekend that feels far bigger than its population suggests. The First Friday in February Farmer’s Cay Festival, better known as the Five-F Festival, packs the anchorage with over 100 cruising boats and turns the airstrip outside Ty’s Sunset Bar & Grill into the island’s main street. It’s the biggest Class C sloop regatta in the Exumas, and it all happens on a cay you can walk end-to-end in under an

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Small Hope Bay a Quiet Andros Corner Worth Slowing Down For

Small Hope Bay Lodge has anchored Andros’ eastern shore since 1960 — one of the Caribbean’s most enduring dive operations, and one of its most deliberately slow corners. You spot it first as a break in the casuarina line — a crescent of calm water held between two low points of land on Andros’ east coast. Coconut palms lean over a white-sand beach where cabana-style cottages sit steps from the tide line. Behind it all, the island stretches inland through pine forests and blue holes, and beyond the reef the seafloor drops more than 6,000 feet into the Tongue

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Morgan’s Bluff Where Andros Meets Pirate Legend

Morgan’s Bluff rises at the northwestern tip of Andros — a wall of limestone that drops straight into the Atlantic. A cave at its base, hidden behind vines and overgrowth, is the reason people come. Local legend says Captain Henry Morgan stashed gold and rum there in the late 1600s. No treasure has ever been found, but the story has stuck to the rock like barnacles. No treasure has been found in the cave at Morgan’s Bluff — the connection between the privateer and this specific site remains local legend rather than documented history. This article is for anyone

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Ocean Hole Park San Salvador’s Strange Inland Saltwater Lake

Inland lakes cover nearly a third of San Salvador’s total surface area — a strange fact for an island barely 12 miles long, and one you feel the moment you step off the plane at Cockburn Town. Inland lakes cover roughly a third of San Salvador’s land area, making this remote Bahamian island as much about its interior waters as its surrounding reef. You fly into San Salvador Airport (ZSA) expecting turquoise coastline in every direction, and that’s there too. But what sticks is the sight of Great Lake spreading across the island’s middle — a 16-kilometre-long inland body

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Alice Town Bimini Where the Island’s Story Actually Begins

Alice Town sprawls along the western shore of North Bimini, a narrow strip of colorful wooden buildings and waterfront docks that has been the island’s heart since 1848. The King’s Highway runs its length, lined with bars where Hemingway drank, restaurants serving conch every way imaginable, and dive operators preparing for a day on the Gulf Stream. This is where Bimini’s story actually begins — not at a resort or a beach club, but in a settlement built by wreckers and fishermen that grew into one of the Atlantic’s most legendary sport fishing capitals. Alice Town was founded in

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