Bahamas

Where to surf in Bahamas

Seen from the air, the Bahamas is a swirling mass of deep blue ocean, dotted with patches of turquoise water and a strip of islands rimmed in white sand. These 700 low-lying islands, along with over 2,400 islets called cays, are surface projections of two oceanic banks composed of coral with a limestone base. Around the islands is found approximately 5% of the world's coral, an amount surpassing even Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Extending from 80km (50mi) east of Florida to 80km (50mi) northeast of Cuba and crossing the Tropic of Cancer, technically speaking, the archipelago is not a part of the Caribbean.

Abaco and Eleuthera

In the past, charters have scoped the northern reef passes, points and beaches of North and Central Abaco which include Frenzies, NE Walkers, Drownies and Rushin Rights.

South Abaco and Eleuthera regularly receive surfers from Florida and the US East Coast, plundering the offshore cays and reefs at Indica’s, Garbanzo and Surfer’s Beach, where a second generation of local riders are now ripping.

More breaks to the west include Love Beach and Rigor Mortis on New Providence, Bonds Cay and Little Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands, Morgan’s Bluff on Andros

Southern Bahamas

South of Abaco and Eleuthera cays and reefs pimple the surface and many are either uninhabited or hard to reach unless you have access to an ocean going yacht, complete with good charts and a skilled captain, willing to explore the enormous potential of the SE Bahamas.

Sandy Point on Cat Island, Cape Santa Maria on Long Island, and Sumner Point’s fringing reef has waves on Rum Cay.

Tourists flock to San Salvador for great snorkelling and diving, where there’s plenty of potential waves on the east coast, plus a due N swell gets in down the NW side to Riding Rock.

The list goes on with Conception Island, Crooked Island, Samana, Mayaguana and Inagua all on the yachties radar.