3 Top HIDDEN Adventures in The Bahamas

During our 5-night trip to Pink Sands Beach on Harbour Island in The Bahamas, we booked a private island tour of North Eleuthera to visit the Sapphire Blue Hole, Preacher's Cave, and Glass Windows Bridge.

The Sapphire Blue Hole reminded us of our Yukatan cenote swim, though this time we jumped from what our guide said was 30 feet up (and with the only way back out of the water being an upper-body-strength rope climb) and into water that was clear blue.

Preacher's Cave is a large natural shelter that was discovered by William Sayle and his group of Christians seeking religious freedom from Bermuda. They were shipwrecked off the coast on a reef called The Devils Backbone and took refuge in the cave after making it ashore. They created a stone altar from a boulder at the back end of the cave and held the island's first religious service, which is how the cave got its name. The altar still stands today.

Glass Window Bridge is one of the few places on earth where you can simultaneously see the dark blue waters of the Atlantic on one side of the bridge and the bright turquoise waters of the Bight of Eleuthera (often incorrectly referred to as the Caribbean Sea) on the other, while standing on a roadway of rock that's only 30 feet wide.

While we really felt that each of these attractions was a "can't miss," we'd probably recommend avoiding our particular "private" tour guide. In hindsight, we're not even sure that he was our tour guide because he took an additional passenger for almost 30 minutes of the drive, he told us very little about each location, and he barely talked to us at all during the drives. So you might want to just Google each of the locations to learn the history and then hire a taxi driver or rent a car to make the visits!