Highbourne Cay, Exuma

Yes, you too can enjoy this beautiful island from your own 3 bedroom villa, just seconds from a two mile secluded beach.   Your well appointed villa comes with new golf carts, and bicycles for you to explore this half mile wide but 3 mile long island.   Yes, only $700/night will let you enjoy this luxury.    You need a Bahamas phone or pay crazy rates for your US phone, and the internet has been down for weeks.  Oh well.

Or you can stay on your boat at their marina at $2.50/ft., plus water, plus electric.  It is a beautiful island, but they are pretty proud of their villas.  After several days in the Exuma Park, in very remote anchorages (plus no cell phone, and no internet), we needed to get to a marina.   So we stayed two nights at Highbourne Cay, thinking we were missing all the bad weather that has been floating around the mid-Bahamas, and thinking we could get internet.  Not so fast buckeroo!  There was no internet around the island or out at the docks, but if you walked up to the beautiful bar high above the beach and drink their $9 rum punch (the bartender called it Shelley's Delight), then you can get internet.  Damn it is hard to check the weather and all my websites after two of these "Delights".

The reef on this beach is 3.5 billion years old.   The oldest known material found in the world.  

Here are some photos , and I have to let you know that I got up before dawn and jumped on a bike to ride over to the other side of the island (the east side) for some early morning shots.   I ran off the boat to be sure I beat the sunrise, but forgot one major thing.   No not the camera, you say, the bug spray.   I arrived at this perfect spot for a photo, and was immediately attacked.   Big vicious mosquitos who somehow survived the night and were very hungry.   I was breakfast.   So enjoy the photos as I am still scratching and itching.     Marc