Bahamas — The Exumas
Ten days through the most photographed water on earth — Nassau to Staniel Cay and back through the cays.
Cruising region: Bahamas Yacht Charter
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Arrival gateway: Nassau (NAS); return gateway: Nassau (NAS)
Nassau is a gateway, not a confirmed return port. Check domestic connections and the final disembarkation point before booking flights.
Private flight: estimate on request within 1–2 hours.
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Plan this charter
- First planned stop
- Nassau
- Final planned stop
- Nassau
Shore plans to discuss with your crew
- Day 1Provisioning at Solomon's Fresh Market
- Day 1Last cocktails ashore at Graycliff
- Day 1Sunset cruise past Paradise Island
- Day 1Swim with stingrays at Sandy Toes Rose Island
- Day 2Snorkel with nurse sharks at the marina pier
- Day 2Beach club lunch at the Xuma Beach Restaurant
Confirm joining and departure ports, yacht availability and the daily passage plan before paying a deposit. The captain decides anchorages and any route changes for weather, sea conditions and local restrictions. Shore venues, marine-park permissions and activity bookings require separate confirmation.
Map connections are schematic, not a navigable passage plan. Distances, safe approaches and passage times must be checked by the captain.
Ask for an itemised quotation covering the charter fee, taxes, APA or package expenses, berth charges and any delivery or redelivery costs.
- DAY 01
Nassau
Embark in Nassau — provisioning, briefings, and a short shakedown out past Paradise Island. Evening cruise to anchor under the stars at Rose Island.
- Provisioning at Solomon's Fresh Market
- Last cocktails ashore at Graycliff
- Sunset cruise past Paradise Island
- Swim with stingrays at Sandy Toes Rose Island
- Anchorage
- Anchor at Rose Island, east of Nassau
- Dining
- Graycliff or Compass Point ashore in Nassau
- DAY 02
Highbourne Cay
Cross the Yellow Bank to the northern Exumas and Highbourne Cay. Tie up at the marina, snorkel with reef sharks at the marina dock, beach barbecue.
- Snorkel with nurse sharks at the marina pier
- Beach club lunch at the Xuma Beach Restaurant
- Bonefishing on the flats at low tide
- Sunset on the cay's east-facing beach
- Anchorage
- Berth at Highbourne Cay Marina
- Dining
- Xuma Beach Restaurant
- DAY 03
Allen's Cay
Tender across to Allen's Cay — uninhabited, home to a colony of endangered Bahamian rock iguanas. Bring lettuce, behave yourself, photograph from the beach.
- Photograph the rock iguanas on Allen's beach
- Snorkel the coral heads in the channel
- SUP between the two cays at high tide
- Anchor lunch on the foredeck
- Anchorage
- Anchor in the channel between Allen's and Leaf Cay
- Dining
- Lunch aboard
- DAY 04
Norman's Cay
South to Norman's Cay — once Carlos Lehder's notorious cocaine smuggling base, now a sleepy island with a famous sunken DC-3 you can snorkel.
- Snorkel the sunken DC-3 in 3m of water
- Lunch at MacDuff's on the beach
- Walk the old airstrip
- Sunset cocktails on the beach
- Anchorage
- Anchor off MacDuff's beach
- Dining
- MacDuff's
- DAY 05
Compass Cay
The Compass Cay marina — where you swim with nurse sharks straight off the dock. Hike to Rachel's Bubble Bath, a natural blowhole pool on the windward side.
- Swim with nurse sharks off the Compass marina pier
- Hike to Rachel's Bubble Bath (best at high tide with waves)
- Beach picnic on the windward side
- Boat-bar drinks at the marina
- Anchorage
- Berth at Compass Cay Marina
- Dining
- Compass Cay marina grill
- DAY 06
Staniel Cay
Staniel Cay — the social heart of the Exumas. Tender to Thunderball Grotto (you'll recognise it from the Bond film), dinner at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club.
- Snorkel Thunderball Grotto at slack tide
- Conch salad ashore at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club
- Visit the Pink Store and the Blue Store
- Sunset rum cocktails at the SCYC bar
- Anchorage
- Anchor off Staniel Cay or berth at the SCYC marina
- Dining
- Staniel Cay Yacht Club
- DAY 07
Big Major — Pig Beach
Big Major Cay — the world-famous swimming pigs. Tender to the beach, swim alongside them, then on for snorkel at the Aquarium.
- Swim with the famous pigs of Big Major Cay
- Snorkel 'The Aquarium' — a coral hotspot
- Picnic lunch on the boat in the anchorage
- Drone footage of pigs paddling out to greet you
- Anchorage
- Anchor in the bay off Pig Beach (west of Big Major)
- Dining
- Lunch aboard; dinner at SCYC
- DAY 08
Bitter Guana Cay
Bitter Guana for the Exumas' rock iguanas in their largest colony, then a long anchorage afternoon on the white sand bank.
- Photograph the Bitter Guana rock iguanas
- Sandbar lunch when the tide drops
- SUP across to neighbouring Gaulin Cay
- Sunset swim in the shallows
- Anchorage
- Anchor on the west sandbar of Bitter Guana
- Dining
- Lunch aboard on the sandbar
- DAY 09
Shroud Cay
North to Shroud Cay — the Exuma Land & Sea Park's most beautiful corner. Tender up the mangrove creeks to Camp Driftwood at the top.
- Tender the mangrove creek to the windward beach
- Climb to Camp Driftwood for the view
- Snorkel the reefs on the south side
- Sunset over the Bank
- Anchorage
- Anchor in Shroud's main west-coast bay
- Dining
- Lunch aboard
- DAY 10
Nassau
Final crossing back to Nassau under a long Bahamian dawn. Disembarkation at Atlantis Marina or Albany.
- Final morning swim at sea
- Brunch at Café Matisse before transfer
- Atlantis aquarium or Albany golf before flights
- Last conch fritter from a roadside shack
- Anchorage
- Berth at Atlantis Marina or Albany
- Dining
- Café Matisse · Graycliff for the farewell
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