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Eleuthera is both a long skinny island, resembling a leg bone, and also the name for a group of smaller islands including Harbour Island and Windermere. Situated about fifty miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas, it is 110 miles long and no more than 1 mile wide. At its narrowest point, by the Glass Window Bridge where the Atlantic meets and mingles with the Caribbean Sea, it is just 30 feet wide. With more than 200 miles of sandy beaches and a population of just 11,000, Eleuthera often feels like a desert island paradise.
Eleuthera is a delightfully relaxed and friendly Bahamian island. It is long and thin with coral reefed Atlantic beaches on one side and calm Caribbean beaches on the other, ideal for water sports and boat trips to swim with turtles and stingrays and snorkel with angel fish.
Eleuthera offers miles of powder-soft, sandy beaches where the crystal clear ocean laps its shores. They are mostly deserted and perfect for dawn or dusk beach strolls when the footprints in the sand will probably be your own. The Potlatch hotel's pink sand beach is on the Atlantic coast and is one of the best, with miles of shoreline to explore.
Governor's Harbour is the capital of Eleuthera, Bahamas, sitting on a bay in the middle of the Caribbean side of the island, but only 5 minutes from the hotel. Its pretty, colourful clapperboard-colonial architecture retains yesteryear charm and its sunsets are legendary.
Methodist church Governor's Harbour
Kite surfing on Potlatch beach
Governor's Harbour bay
Caribbean-colonial style clapperboard houses
Blue gin-clear waters
Sunset over Governor's Harbour
