Bahamas Charter Itinerary

Bahamas Itinerary

Bahamas Yacht Charter
Seven hundred islands, two thousand cays and roughly thirty inhabited. The Bahamas are not a place so much as a shallow bank the size of a country, over which the water turns colours that photographs consistently fail to settle.





This route is the broad survey: the capital, the pink sand of Eleuthera, and then south into the Exumas where the cays multiply and the wildlife takes over. It suits a first visit ’ the highlights, in order, without a long passage anywhere.





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 Bahamas; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Nassau & Rose Island

Begin in Nassau, then leave it ’ Rose Island is a short passage east, a green ridge with empty beaches on the lee side and reef within tender range. Snorkel, take lunch on the sand, and return to the capital in the evening for a proper dinner and whatever else the harbour is offering.
Day 2

Harbour Island

Thread the Devil’s Backbone, a passage that requires a pilot or a captain who has done it before, and Harbour Island opens beyond. Three miles of sand tinted pink by crushed coral. Dunmore Town was the original capital: clapboard, bougainvillea, bicycles instead of cars. Dive the reef, then eat by the water.
Day 3

Eleuthera

Eleuthera runs a hundred miles and is barely a mile wide in places ’ at the Glass Window Bridge the Atlantic and the bank sit side by side in different colours. Work down the leeward coast, anchoring at hidden cays and swimming in lagoons the chart barely acknowledges. Culture ashore is genuine and unhurried.
Day 4

Staniel Cay

South into the Exumas. Staniel Cay is the practical centre ’ a marina, a yacht club, a runway and reef in every direction. Lunch ashore, then Big Major’s Spot, where the pigs swim out to meet the tender, and Thunderball Grotto, a light-filled sea cave entered underwater at slack tide.
Day 5

Highbourne & Norman’s Cay

North again along the chain. Norman’s Cay holds a drug smuggler’s aircraft in three metres of water, wings furred with coral, entirely benign now. Highbourne is trim and quiet, a marina between two beaches. Snorkel, then a long lunch with a view over the bank. This is the Exumas at their most civilised.
Day 6

Highbourne Cay

Give the cay a day. Take a golf cart across to the windward beaches where nobody goes, kayak the shallows, and swim off the boat before breakfast. Stingrays work the marina dock at dusk. Sail for Nassau in the evening, with the bank going pale gold and then dark behind you.
Day 7

Nassau

The last day belongs to the capital: the straw market, the forts above the town, the colonial buildings on Bay Street, and Atlantis across the bridge if that is your idea of a good time. A final sunset from the deck, over water that has been showing off all week and does not intend to stop.

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