What you can see on the Harbour Island cam
The camera looks east from a garden on the island over the trees and palms to the Atlantic Ocean. It faces the sunrise, which comes up straight out of the sea in front of it, and through the day it shows the sky, the trade-wind clouds and the colour of the ocean off the island.
Sunrise over the Atlantic, Harbour Island
From a garden on Harbour Island, this camera looks east over the trees and palms to the Atlantic Ocean, straight into the sunrise, which comes up out of the sea in front of it.
After the sunrise it shows the sky and the trade-wind clouds over the ocean, and the colour of the water off the island.
The pink sand
The beach of Harbour Island owes its pale pink colour to tiny marine creatures, foraminifera, whose red shells are ground up with the white sand. A reef offshore breaks the Atlantic swell, so the water near the beach is usually calm and clear. Dunmore Town, on the harbour side facing Eleuthera, is one of the oldest settlements in the Bahamas, with wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries.
When to watch Harbour Island
The Bahamas keep Eastern Time, with daylight saving from March to November. Sunrise is the moment for this camera. The winter months bring the clearest skies; the hurricane season runs from June to November.
Around Harbour Island
Across the harbour lies North Eleuthera, with its airport and the Three Island Dock. Spanish Wells, a fishing island, is a short boat ride to the west, and the Glass Window Bridge is further south on Eleuthera.
Getting to Harbour Island
Most visitors fly to North Eleuthera airport and take a taxi to the dock, then a water taxi across to the island, a ride of about ten minutes. Fast ferries also run from Nassau.