About 130 miles southeast of Nassau and Paradise Island near the Tropic of Cancer lies Cat Island. Explore uninhabited cays and hidden coves, attend a regatta, go on a shark dive or hike a nature trail. Cat Island provides a year-round tropical beach vacation adventure. Divers like the coral reefs and blue holes, walls, caves and shipwrecks. Shark dives, dolphins and stingrays are all part of the experience. While veteran divers know their way around the ocean floor, guides always are around to help beginners experience life under the sea.
Cat Island, Bahamas, is a fishhook-shaped island only 48 miles long and four miles across at the widest part. Yet, it offers plenty to do and see. Cotton plantation ruins are scattered around the island. The remains of slave huts dating back to the 1700s and Arawak Indian caves can be explored. Cat Island also prides itself on producing The Bahamas’ finest rake ’n scrape music and holds an annual festival dedicated to it.
Cat Island is off the normal tourist trail of the Bahamas, one of the outer islands. With just around 1,700
locals and not a large number of long-stay visitors or holiday makers it's as close to the deserted island paradise as one is likely
to find. It's a long and skinny spit of land with the highest point in the Bahamas, though still only 206 foot at its peak.
This untamed
island is one of the most beautiful and fertile of The Bahamas. A lush sanctuary, it provides tranquillity for those seeking an escape
from the pressures of modern civilization. This is an ideal place to put all of that consumer stuff aside and simply relax!