Exumas Yacht Charter

The Exumas are the reason people fall in love with the Bahamas. A chain of 365 cays stretching south from Nassau, the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park is one of the western hemisphere's premier protected sailing areas. The water is shallow, warm, and impossibly clear—on calm days you can see the sandy bottom 20 feet below your keel as if you were in a swimming pool.

Highlights include the famous swimming pigs of Pig Beach, the sharks of Compass Cay, the iguanas of Allen's Cay, and the natural pools of Thunderball Grotto (where the Bond film was shot). Each cay offers something different, and the distances between stops are short enough to make multiple anchorages per day entirely possible.

This is sailing at its most carefree—throw the anchor in a sandy patch, swim off the boat, watch the sunset, repeat.