A Tropical Escape on the Beautiful Pink Sand
What to Expect….
Harbor Island is a small island located just northwest of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. It is best known as the pink sand beach. Of all beaches I’ve been to, this has to be the best ever. The water is so clear, the sand is so soft and clean. You will not find any hard shell nor seaweed washing up on the shores. And the sand has this pretty light pink color to it.
We were only here for a 3-day weekend getaway. That is plenty of time for this island, but you can definitely stick around longer cause it is sooo relaxing here. The main source of transportation here is using a golf cart. Of course, you will need a car or taxi driver to take you from the Eleuthera airport to the boat taxi, which then takes you to the island. This island is fairly safe. Dan and I took the golf cart out all night, and everyone there were really nice and friendly.
Things to Do….
There’s not a whole lot to do on this island except for eating, relaxing, driving the golf cart around to go site seeing and snorkeling. The water is beautiful here. There are so many coral reefs just right off of the shore of the pink sand. We saw so many beautiful, colorful fishes in the water. Also saw a barracuda, which I stayed away from!
Oh and I forgot to mention, we saw a mermaid! Got to take a picture with her too lol.
We stayed at a beautiful resort, Valentines Resort & Marina. The rooms were just amazing and the view was gorgeous.
What to Eat….
Of course, when in the Bahamas you must have some conch salad, cracked conch, conch chowder and conch fritters. It’s so delicious! There’s on two places you can get conch salad on this island, which is Martin’s conch stand and Queen Conch.
There are lots of restaurants on this island, so there are plenty of other places to eat at. We stumbled upon Sip Sip which was crazy packed, but the food was delicious. Their food was more on the healthier side, but still tasted really good. We also had dinner at the Ruanaway Hill, which was really good. They had a really nice menu, that included crab and mango salad, grouper, Bahamian lobster, etc. They were all really good. I don’t think there were any food on the island that I did not like. Just a reminder though, you are on Bahamian time, so everything is at a slower pace. Be patient when it comes to food.
Well that wraps up this trip. I would love to come back here again one day and to relax and snorkel. Don’t forget to check out the other island of the Bahamas!
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