Bahamian Out Islands Charter Itinerary

Bahamian Out Islands Itinerary

Bahamian Out Islands Yacht Charter
The Out Islands are what the Bahamas were before the cruise terminals: sparsely populated, poorly served by aircraft, and consequently among the emptiest anchorages in the Atlantic. Conception is a national park with nobody on it. Rum Cay has a few dozen residents and a wall that drops into deep blue a short swim from shore.





This route heads south-east from Eleuthera into that emptiness, then works back through the Exumas. It suits people who would rather see a turtle than a tender dock, and who understand that remoteness is the amenity.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Out Islands; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Cape Eleuthera

Board at Cape Eleuthera, at the southern tip of the island, where the bank falls away into the Exuma Sound and the water goes from turquoise to navy within a mile. Dive Bamboo Point in the afternoon ’ healthy coral, good visibility, few people. Cocktails on deck as the sun sets behind the island, and a course set south overnight.
Day 2

Cat Island

Cat Island is long, thin and almost undisturbed, with the highest point in the Bahamas at a modest sixty-three metres. Paddle the mangrove creeks at the northern end, dive the reefs offshore, and walk beaches where the only footprints are yours. The Hermitage on Mount Alvernia, built by hand by a single priest, is worth the climb.
Day 3

Conception Island

Conception is a national park and entirely uninhabited ’ no landing fees, no facilities, no anybody. Green turtles feed in the creeks on the eastern side, and the beach on the west is pink at the waterline. Snorkel, swim, take the tender up the creek at high tide, and understand why the Bahamas National Trust fenced this one off.
Day 4

Rum Cay

Rum Cay took its name from a wrecked cargo, which tells you most of what you need. Fewer than a hundred people live here. The diving is the draw: a wall that starts in fifteen metres and drops past a thousand, with visibility that regularly exceeds thirty. Afterwards, a beach bar, a cold drink, and a conversation with everyone on the island.
Day 5

San Salvador

San Salvador is where Columbus made his first landfall in the New World in 1492, and the monuments ashore argue politely about exactly where. History aside, the island offers wall diving to match Rum Cay and beaches with nothing behind them. Anchor off the west coast, out of the trades, and take the day slowly.
Day 6

The Exumas

North-west into the Exuma Cays, three hundred and sixty islands strung over a hundred and thirty miles. Sandbars appear at low water and vanish by evening. Dive one of the blue holes ’ vertical shafts in the limestone, cold, dark and unnervingly deep. The pigs swim out at Big Major, as advertised, and it never gets less absurd.
Day 7

Eleuthera

Work back to Eleuthera for a final day on its Atlantic side, where the surf runs onto pink sand and the water on the bank behind stays flat. A last snorkel, a picnic ashore, and back into Cape Eleuthera. The Out Islands do not put on a show. They simply carry on, and let you leave when you must.

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