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Wish You Were Here

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Marveling at the colorful magic show put on by Mother Nature at the end of each and every day in The Bahamas.

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Saturday Video: Junkanoo, the Caribbean’s Best New Year’s Jam

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Without a doubt, the Caribbean is THE BEST place to ring in the New Year! Partying is in our West Indian blood, so finding a good fete just about anywhere along the island chain is no problem.
For the very best jam, though, Nassau is the place to be! New Year’s here means Junkanoo, which for anyone lucky enough to be on Bay Street after midnight tonight means an unforgettable great time.

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Starting the Day with a Morning Jog Along Love Beach, Nassau

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Your monthly moment of zen.

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Wish You Were Here

Goldie's at Arawak Cay Fish Fry, Nassau/SBPR

Soaking in the decidedly local scene at Goldie’s Daiquiri & Sky Juice Bar at Arawak Cay Fish Fry in Nassau. For more on this famed Bahamas attraction, click here.

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On-Site Nassau: Uncommonly Cool Compass Point Resort

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For anyone traveling to Nassau, the prospect of finding accommodations at the type of special hotels that cater to our special style of travel can be daunting to say the least. The place is just so synonymous with humongous, one-size-fits-all resorts (with more on the way) that it’s easy to think you might be better off somewhere else.
That thinking, however, would be wrong, as anyone who’s ever happened along Compass Point surely knows.

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On-Site Nassau: My One Night Stand on Arawak Cay

The New Big 10 on Arawak Cay, Nassau/SBPR

What would you do if you only had one night to enjoy the most developed and commercial (read: touristy) of Bahamas islands? I posed that question to our Facebook fans ahead of a one-night business trip I had planned to Nassau a few weeks ago. The responses were so unanimous, so fervent in their insistence that I just had to obey. Indeed, if I was to have just one night in Nassau, there would only be one place for me: Arawak Cay.

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Taste of the Caribbean: Can’t Miss Cracked Conch in The Bahamas

Cracked Conch at Compass Point, Nassau/SBPR

Earlier this year, I wrote about traveling to Grand Cayman and enjoying my first taste of turtle. Predictably, this was not one of our more popular posts. Reader responses generally ranged from outrage to disappointment. Turtles are cute and endangered; how can anyone think of eating them?
I can see where my detractors were coming from (though most ignored the conservation side of the story), but I’m wondering how these same people will feel about the subject of today’s Taste of the Caribbean: the regal, if not ravenous Queen Conch.

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