About The Bahamas
Twin Air serves Eleuthera and Abaco
The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an Archipelago that stretches some 750 miles from off shore Palm Beach to just about the North Coast of Hispaniola. Throughout this world, lies some 2500 Cays (Pronounced "Keys") and several larger inhabited Islands.
Nassau on New Providence Island is the bustling Capital City, and Freeport on Grand Bahama is the country's so called second city. After that everything else makes up the out Islands, known as the Family Islands.
These more remote and much less commercial locations are what many consider the "Real" Bahamas. Some of these Islands, especially in the Southern Bahamas are still pretty far out and have little or no facilities for comfortable tourism. However in the Central and Northwest Bahamas the Family Islands have reached a delightful balance of comfortable and simple sophistication, while retaining their old world charm and quaintness.
The Islands of Abaco and Eleuthera are such locales. Both played a major role in the history of the area and today the Loyalist Colonial Architecture and Ambiance is especially visible in Harbour Island and Spanish Wells, both small islands just offshore North Eleuthera, and at Green Turtle Cay and Man-Of-War Cay, In Abaco.
Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas largest small town adds to give Abaco an interesting mixture of the industrious, surrounded by the laid back.
Eleuthera, on the other hand, is 100 miles of rolling green hills, beautiful pink beaches and dramatic coral cliffs. The settlements of Rock Sound and Governor's Harbour make up the South and Central portion of the Island and Harbour Island and Spanish Wells the Northern end.
Quaint Harbour Island is certainly the center and successful stereotype of the visitor/tourist location in the Family Islands, with a bit of everything including the acclaimed "Pink Sands Beach", recognized as one of the finest in the world.
Spanish Wells and the North Eleuthera mainland constitute the industrious and farming areas and are fabulously interesting in their own right.
Whether it Abaco or Eleuthera, Twin Air offers frequent non-stop service from Ft. Lauderdale.
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