Harbour Island
Harbour Island has a three-mile pink sand beach and the most polished small settlement in the Bahamas. It is where a Bahamas charter goes to have a proper dinner.
The pink sand
The colour comes from the crushed shells of foraminifera, small marine organisms whose red fragments mix into the white sand. It is most obvious in the early morning and late afternoon light. The beach runs the length of the eastern shore and is rarely crowded.
Dunmore Town
A loyalist settlement of pastel cottages, bougainvillea and golf carts, with no real traffic. It has a disproportionate number of good restaurants and a few very good hotels. People dress for dinner here in a way they do not anywhere else in the Bahamas.
Getting around
Golf carts are the transport and the crew will arrange one. The island is small enough to walk, but not in the afternoon heat with a dinner reservation to keep.
Anchoring and conditions
Yachts anchor or take a mooring in the harbour between Harbour Island and north Eleuthera. The current runs hard through it. The entrance across the bar from the north requires local knowledge and the right state of tide, and some captains will not attempt it in a swell.
Send us your dates and party size and we will put together a shortlist of crewed yachts that can take you here.