Category: Caribbean

  • Gulf Stream Companions

    Gulf Stream Companions

    Sailing from West End, Bahamas to Charleston, South Carolina we encountered some pretty cool companions. They followed us for about 45 minutes.

  • 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

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  • Black Point, Exuma

    Black Point, Exuma

    Take a look at some of the beautiful sites of Black Point, Exumas, Bahamas.

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  • North Sound, Virgin Gorda

    North Sound, Virgin Gorda

    These photographs from the North Sound of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands were taken in June 2003

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  • 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.

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  • Atlantis Aquarium, Bahamas

    Atlantis Aquarium, Bahamas

    Photographs of the giant aquarium in the Atlantis Resort, Nassau, Bahamas.

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  • Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Virgin Islands

    Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Virgin Islands

    Charlotte Amalie is the capital and largest city of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located on the island of Saint Thomas and as of 2004 had an estimated population of 19,000 (the 2000 U.S. Census found a population of 18,914).

    The city is named after Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), queen consort to King Christian V of Denmark. It is famous as a deep-water harbor that was once a haven for pirates and is now a famed cruise ship port of call, with about 1.5 million cruise ship passengers landing there in 2004. Charlotte Amalie has many buildings of historical importance and is home to the second-oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.

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  • Tortola – British Virgin Islands

    Tortola – British Virgin Islands

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  • Antiqua, Leeward Islands

    Antiqua, Leeward Islands

    Antigua (pronounced /ænˈtiːgə/ an-TEE-gah) is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda.

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