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Pig Beach [1] located on Big Major Cay [2] (also known as Major Cay [3]) is a beach on an uninhabited island (or cay) located in Exuma, the Bahamas. The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island.
Compass Cay is an island in The Bahamas, located in the Exuma district. The island, notable for its naturally-protected harbor, has been outfitted with a beach lodge and a marina. [1] The island also has a famed population of docile nurse sharks. The nurse sharks in the marina have become a popular tourist attraction, bringing in visitors from ...
Staniel Cay is an island located in The Exuma Cays, a district of The Bahamas. Staniel Cay is located roughly 120 km (75 mi) south of Nassau and 400 km (250 mi) southeast of Florida . The island has a population of less than 118 full-time residents [ 1 ] and has an area of less than 5 km 2 (2 sq mi).
[3] [4] Great Exuma island has an area of 61 sq mi (158 km²) while Little Exuma has an area of 11 sq mi (29 km²). [5] Between 2000 and 2010, the population of Exuma more than doubled, reflecting the construction of large and small resort properties and the related direct air traffic to Great Exuma from locations as distant as Toronto, Canada ...
Crewed charters are staffed by a captain and professional crew that can include chefs, engineers, deckhands, and stewards. Most bareboat charter companies offer basic seamanship courses to prepare clients for handling a boat. These companies may also provide skippered charters, which include a skipper, but no additional crew. [1]
The bareboat charter market was established first in 1967 in Tortola by Jack Von Ost, [3] founder of Caribbean Sailing Yachts, who conceived the idea of a fleet made up of similar boats, with a standard for maintenance and equipment and boats especially designed for charter and not private use.
A bareboat charter, or demise charter, is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement. Instead, the people who rent the vessel from the owner are responsible for taking care of such things and (for commercial shipping) obtaining insurance, usually for a ...
Torch Cay claims the highest point of elevation in the entire Exuma island chain and cays, with a hilltop reaching a maximum elevation of 128 ft. [7] Situated at a lower elevation point on the island, Torch Cay's light annual rainfall drains inland to a central farm area as opposed to the sea, creating a fertile basin for agriculture protected ...