Bahamas700 islands of turquoise water — Eleuthera's pink sand and the Pitons-of-the-Atlantic Glass Window Bridge, Paradise Island's Cabbage Beach, and Exuma's swimming pigs

The Bahamas is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic — not technically Caribbean (it sits north of Cuba and the Tropic of Cancer), though it shares the Caribbean tropical-water tier and most travelers lump it in. The archipelago's 700 islands and 2,400 cays cluster around three travel hubs: New Providence (Nassau, the capital and the country's only major airport, plus the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge connection to Paradise Island), Eleuthera (the 110-mile-long ribbon island east of Nassau, with the colonial-era Governor's Harbour, the world-famous pink-sand beaches at Harbour Island, and the Glass Window Bridge), and the Exumas (a 365-cay chain southeast of Nassau, including the swimming pigs at Big Major Cay, Tropic of Cancer Beach, and the underground Thunderball Grotto from the James Bond film). Currency is the Bahamian dollar pegged 1-to-1 with USD; English is the official language; hurricane season runs June through November.

Our Bahamas inventory concentrates in two geographic pockets — Eleuthera (Governor's Harbour, the Wykee Estates and Cap Estate–tier luxury homes near the Sky Beach Club, and the central west coast around Anchor and Banks Roads) and Paradise Island (the Paradise Island Beach Club resort villas at Cabbage Beach steps from Atlantis). Eleuthera homes lean private-pool 3- to 5-bedroom villas with golf-cart access; Paradise Island stock leans 2-bedroom resort villas with shared pools, beach access, and ferry-distance from Nassau's Bay Street. Both islands run direct US flights from East Coast hubs — NAS for Nassau / Paradise Island, GHB or ELH for Eleuthera.