World Ocean’s Day: Where to Celebrate in The Bahamas
|| few pink sands beaches || EleutheraLining the lengthy-shores of Harbour Island and mainland Eleuthera, these wide expanses of plage draw the resort-crowds in search of pink speckled beaches. The result of mixing thousands of broken coral pieces, shells, and calcium carbonate materials left behind by foraminifera – tiny marine creatures with red and pink shells – these stretches of sand are often touted “best in the world” by glossy travel magazines.
|| deepest blue hole || Long IslandRecognized as the world’s deepest hole in the sea-floor, Dean’s Blue Hole drops to a dramatic depth of 663 feet, 202 meters. Host to Vertical Blue, an internationally recognized bi-annual free-diving competition, it’s often here you can find 15-time world record holder, free-diver, William Trubridge training below the aquatic surface.
|| only underwater steinway piano || Exumas
Located 105 miles south east of New Providence you can snorkel yet another underwater sculpture of Taylor’s. Commissioned by private-island owner and magician David Copperfield, “The Musician” is a mermaid playing a Steinway concert grand piano undersea. Read about my first introduction to her here.
|| third longest barrier reef || Andros
Stretching 124 miles, lining the east coast of Andros, is the third longest barrier reef in the world. Before disappearing in to the Tongue of The Ocean: an ocean trench that dramatically drops to over 6,000 feet, the reef slopes down a vertical cliff, making it an ideal dive spot for scuba-divers of all levels.
|| highest concentration of blue holes || AndrosEqually as important to what lies beyond the shoreline is what awaits to be explored in-land. Boasting a higher concentration of Blue Holes than anywhere else on earth, the largest island in the Bahamas is home to 178 land-locked blue holes, and more than 50 out at sea.
|| narrowest place on earth || EleutheraIt’s at the Glass Window Bridge that the deep blues of the churning Atlantic and the turquoise shallow waters of the Great Bahama Bank come in to sharp focus.
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