You may get misplaced out right here. There are almost 4,500 acres of Bahamian frontier right here, full of casuarinas, empty trails and secluded white-sand seashores. Take a golf cart, or a bicycle or, when you’re daring, only a pair of trainers and in just some moments you’ll be, properly, on the market. On an island like Eleuthera, one which’s already deliciously faraway from the mainstream journey radar, even Cape Eleuthera is distant.
The skinny, 110-mile-long Caribbean island of Eleuthera has three airports, and attending to Cape Eleuthera nonetheless requires an almost 40-minute drive from Rock Sound, the southernmost of the three worldwide airports on the island. However as with all locations of nice worth, the journey rewards those that make it.
Vacationers have been coming to the Cape Eleuthera resort for greater than a half century, from when the time the resort was the “in” spot, with an internationally well-known golf course and friends like Arnold Palmer.
As with all properties in distant locations, it then went by means of the ebbs and flows of island resorts, altering house owners a number of instances and falling into quieter instances and, now, a full-fledged renaissance.
The property is prospering, with a set of brand name new toes-in-the-sand bungalows, a new-look seashore restaurant and a renewed vitality, stewarded by passionate, hospitality-driven managers Justin and Kat Dubowitz. The bungalows have joined a set of suites and a sequence of two-story villas, the latter perched proper above the marina with some significantly beautiful views of the bobbing boats and past.
You rapidly fall into the rhythm right here. You savor the serenity that abounds right here, a spot the place you’ll be able to really hear the sound of your individual footsteps.
After a morning brew or a stroll across the marina, the journey begins. Possibly you exit for among the greatest deep-sea fishing this facet of the Atlantic; or strive your hand at exploring a number of miles of the 4,500 acres; or take a brief boat trip to the Crusoe-style sandbar simply offshore.
Did I point out world-class bonefishing? Possibly you head out on a dive boat. Then it’s again to one of many postcard-perfect seashores for a well-timed rum punch.
A long time after it was smack in the course of the limelight, South Eleuthera is buzzing once more, with each the rebirth of Cape Eleuthera and a few new luxury-brand developments within the works in Rock Sound (together with a Nicklaus-designed golf course).
However right here at Cape Eleuthera, it’s blissfully, intoxicatingly timeless, a kind of locations that stay so troublesome to search out lately, islands inside islands. It’s not only a place to get away. Whether or not it’s for a day or every week or nonetheless lengthy you keep, it’s a spot the place the remainder of the world turns into a foggy reminiscence.
It’s probably the most genuine, most memorable resort in all of Eleuthera.
On the tail finish of a quiet afternoon, in regards to the time while you go trying to find a inexperienced flash. Kat and Justin are sitting on seashore chairs, rapidly providing up a “sundowner,” as is the ritual for many who enterprise out right here.
The recipe is straightforward: probably the most stunning sundown you’ll ever see.
Cape Eleuthera has rooms beginning at $555 for a seashore bungalow.
Makers Air flies scheduled service out of Fort Lauderdale.
