Tag: bahamas

  • Long Island – Bahamas

    Long Island – Bahamas

    Like so many 80-mile Long Island, Bahamas has a rough side and a calm side. One side has the dramatic cliffs and caves of the east coast that front the crashing Atlantic waves. The west side has soft, sandy beaches that lead into the Bahamas Bank.

  • Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

    Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

    Rock Sound, Eleuthera, BahamasThe settlement of Rock Sound on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas was originally called New Portsmouth.

  • Nassau – Bahamas

    Nassau – Bahamas

    Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 260,000 (2008 census), nearly 80 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas (330,000). Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for The Bahamas, is located about 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of Nassau city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which functions much like a federal district. While there is no local government, it is governed directly as an administrative division of the national government.

  • Atlantis Aquarium, Bahamas

    Atlantis Aquarium, Bahamas

    Here are some photographs of the giant Aquarium in the Atlantis Resort in Nassau Bahamas.