I have to confess; I love the Bahamas and try to go there as often as possible. Living in Florida does give me an unfair advantage to some others though since I have such close proximity. If you haven’t been to the Bahamas you don’t know what you are missing. Take a look.
The islands of the Bahamas offer everything you have dreamed of in a tropical paradise complete with miles of white and pink sand beaches that are sometimes deserted and the clearest water you will find anywhere. When many people think of the Bahamas they think of only one island, and sometimes mistakenly Nassau. The island nation actually consists of over seven hundred islands and covers an enormous one hundred thousand square miles of the Western Atlantic Ocean where the Caribbean meets it off the coast of Florida. Most people don’t realize that the majority of these islands are uninhabited and many are only sparsely populated, such as my personal favorite, Eleuthera which is on the far eastern side of the islands. The Bahamas offer not only one of the most scenically beautiful areas to visit but their local traditions and customs must be experienced as well.
Of course the majority of the activities in the Bahamas revolve around the water since there is so much of it, of course you can always just lie on the beach and in many locations you will be the only one there! For divers and snorkelers the Bahamas welcomes you with some of the clearest water in the entire world with visibility as much as two hundred feet sometimes. There are many places that you can snorkel right off of the beach, when we stayed in Eleuthera last year we spent hours everyday in the water and never saw more than a small part of what was available just on that island. There is also some of the best fishing found anywhere on the planet and the area is known worldwide for its famous bonefishing flats.
Do you think that the airports are just little grass strips? Not hardly, even on Eleuthera the landing strips are modern and well maintained. There are actually nearly sixty airports in the islands of the Bahamas including three classified as International in The Exumas, Grand Bahama and in Nassau. You can get to the Bahamas from anywhere on the globe.
The official language is English and the Bahamian currency is the Bahamian dollar which is equal to the U.S. dollar so currency exchange is no issue and the American dollar is used just as often as the Bahamian all over the islands.