From our hotel, The Landing, the beach was an unthinkable 10-minute walk. It led us past a succession of 150-year-old churches, cottages built by the 18th-century British Loyalists who first settled these parts, and royal poinciana trees in full bloom.
Harbour Island is a small island approximately one mile off the northeast tip of Eleuthera, which is about 40 miles east of Nassau, Bahamas.