Top Experiences in North Eleuthera, The Bahamas - Sapphire Blue Hole, Preacher's Cave, Glass Windows
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- During our 5-night trip to Pink Sands Beach on Harbour Island in The Bahamas, we booked a private island tour of North Eleuthera to visit the Sapphire Blue Hole, Preacher's Cave, and Glass Windows Bridge.
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Planning
2:20 Heading Out
3:20 Catching Our Driver
3:37 Blue Sapphire Hole
6:31 Preacher's Cave
8:18 Glass Windows Bridge
9:20 Lunch at Queen Conch
11:30 Brooklyn's Drives Us Home
11:51 Tour Wrap-Up
13:18 Beach Break
13:08 Dinner at The Dunmore
17:04 Behind the Scenes
18:22 Outro
The Sapphire Blue Hole reminded us of our Yukatan cenote swim, though this time we jumped from what our guide said was 30 feet up (and with the only way back out of the water being an upper-body-strength rope climb) and into water that was clear blue.
Preacher's Cave is a large natural shelter that was discovered by William Sayle and his group of Christians seeking religious freedom from Bermuda. They were shipwrecked off the coast on a reef called The Devils Backbone and took refuge in the cave after making it ashore. They created a stone altar from a boulder at the back end of the cave and held the island's first religious service, which is how the cave got its name. The altar still stands today.
Glass Window Bridge is one of the few places on earth where you can simultaneously see the dark blue waters of the Atlantic on one side of the bridge and the bright turquoise waters of the Bight of Eleuthera (often incorrectly referred to as the Caribbean Sea) on the other, while standing on a roadway of rock that's only 30 feet wide.
From a viewer: ** correction @8:55 - it’s not the Gulf of Mexico, it’s the Bight of Eleuthera which is a part of the Great Bahamas Bank platform which a large number of Bahamian islands are located on (creating the shallower beautiful light blue waters). The Exuma sound is actually a little further south of Eleuthera and is deeper.
The Gulf of Mexico of hundreds of miles away from that location in much deeper waters. You would have to pass Nassau , Andros and Florida to get the the Gulf of Mexico
While we really felt that each of these attractions was a "can't miss," we'd probably recommend avoiding our particular "private" tour guide. In hindsight, we're not even sure that he was our tour guide because he took an additional passenger for almost 30 minutes of the drive, he told us very little about each location, and he barely talked to us at all during the drives. So you might want to just Google each of the locations to learn the history and then hire a taxi driver or rent a car to make the visits!
Love my mother island🥰🥰🥰
It’s beautiful there! We hope to make it back some day.
Loved the sapphire blue hole on our way to airpirt! Self guided we were. There's great jump spots on the point at Governor's Harbour! Beautiful waters with a great gift shop there who sheaves wonderful mango smoothies!!!
Those jump spots are addicting! We want to jump more and from higher every time!
Totally stunning vlog guys loved it so much that I ended up wat ching twice . The island is so breathtakingly beautiful, you are blessed to be there, pretty jealous btw😋😍👍🏻
We were so grateful to be able to explore multiple islands. We have episodes coming up with our charter through the Exumas. The Exumas completely blew us away!
@@AlwaysBeChanging wow am more excited then can't wait to watch ❤😊
Very nice video .
** correction @8:55 - it’s not the Gulf of Mexico, it’s the Bight of Eleuthera which is a part of the Great Bahamas Bank platform which a large number of Bahamian islands are located on (creating the shallower beautiful light blue waters). The Exuma sound is actually a little further south of Eleuthera and is deeper.
The Gulf of Mexico of hundreds of miles away from that location in much deeper waters. You would have to pass Nassau , Andros and Florida to get the the Gulf of Mexico
Thank you for that correction! We’ll make note of it in our description :)
😍😍😍 I was here 👣👣😂😂🌺🌺🌺...
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You remind me of "wife Rio Blaze"
is the sapphire hole deep
Oh, yes! Like 600 feet / 183 meters deep 👍🏼
Did you speak to whoever set up the tour for you? I don't know why I feel you didn't even actually go with the right person.
It was not organized very well. The person who set up the tour intended for us to take whatever driver at the time. Things are run differently in different countries. We went with the flow and made the most of the experience but it was not a great tour.