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World Ocean’s Day: Where to Celebrate in The Bahamas

Given 95% of the surface of The Bahamas is covered in water, it’s no surprise that the archipelago is home to many landmarks of liquid nature, all in some way directly related to the sea. As today is...

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Diving Into Thirty

“You’ll love it,” a friend said of my lessons in scuba diving. “It will feel like home,” another intoned. Given the feel of the ocean is my deepest rooted feeling of home, I thought it true; some forty...

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Cave Adventures

“No Stress.” Words that line the hull of the boat, but in stark contradiction to what I’m feeling; what between the wind which mirrors the tantrum of a small child, and the boat itself which boasts a...

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Summer To-Do List

Yesterday marked the first day of summer: a change in season felt in the lukewarm waters, noticed in the clouds overhead, and admired in the fiery burst of the poinciana and the ripened skin of a...

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Hog Island Light

There’s something about a lighthouse that’s alluring, romantic even. Ever more so when it’s the oldest surviving light in the West Indies. Located on the western tip of Paradise Island, formerly known...

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Do Not Disturb

“Mummy, what are they doing?” I can hear the words spoken now. I can feel the slightly nervous chuckle escape my lips. And we don’t even have children yet. Like most I anticipate that talk with our...

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Only In The Bahamas

Before the much delayed, much controversial, and much updated Marsh Harbour International Airport opened on mainland Abaco, the terminal was a single-room arrival and departure lounge which housed a...

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Eleuthera Talisman

“Pull the car over” my husband anxiously requests. We’re nearing the bottom of ‘Pyfrom Lane’ in Governor’s Harbour: a narrow, one way thoroughfare named after my great-grandmother’s family. It’s...

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Silent Silos

It appears the root of my devotion to beautiful, yet impractical things doesn’t stem from naivety, but has long traveled through the veins of my family tree. It’s said that along this road my...

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Bond Girl

Long has the Caribbean, particularly The Bahamas, been entangled in a heated love affair with James Bond. In fact, it was in the 1962 film Dr.No that actress Ursula Andress staged one of the most...

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Sand Waves

Throughout The Bahamas Mother Nature is vividly on display above, below, and in line with the horizon. Underwater she swims in a kaleidoscope of colour. She’s seen in the fiery lines of a crawfish, the...

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Preacher’s Cave

There will come a day, sooner rather than later my mum hopes, when the pitter patter of little feet is heard scurrying across wooden floor-boards, and the speed at which we navigate the islands will...

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She Shack

Chairish asked if I would curate a collection inspired by my very own woman cave. Naturally, I leapt at the invitation. But rather than a dim room tucked in the corner of our home, I envisioned a ‘She...

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Fort Montagu

On the weekends, when our schedules slightly slow, Chris and I like to jump in his Wrangler and head East. Our destination: Montagu, a pull-off-point located on the north-east corner of New...

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How To Conserve Art in The Island Home

In the tropics one is required to have a high degree of respect for mother nature. For where she casts her light can be ruinous, particularly to books and paintings. Last year we saw our modest art...

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Christ Church Cathedral

A stalwart structure in the heart of busy and bustling downtown.

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Coastal Caftan Giveaway

Considered by critics a shapeless shift, even a sleek sack, I prefer caftans with a dedication to detail, intricate or otherwise. This design presents the perfect plunge, side slits, and a scalloped...

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Shifting Silhouettes

My go-to dress when my skin is still hot from the sun.

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Manjack Cay

Where in The Abacos to swim with stingrays along a secluded stretch of sand.

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St. Patrick’s Anglican Church

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