White Bay Sandbar
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VIDEO: A Secret Sandbar in the Bahamas

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - July 6, 2016

There is no one here.

And it feels like no one has ever been here.

This is White Bay, a secret sandbar off the western coast of Great Exuma in the Bahamas, a beach straight out of a beer commercial, a beach that becomes entirely yours the moment you take your first step.

You can get here only by taking a bonefish charter, but when you do, you’ll feel like you came on a spaceship.

There is an otherworldly quality here, the kind you feel when the only sound you hear is the sound of nothing.

This is a marvelous, ethereal, stunning place. This is White Bay. And this is what it’s like to be here:

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