What you can see on the Hope Town cam
The camera looks out from a house on the island towards the Atlantic: palm trees and green ground in the foreground and the ocean behind, under the wide sky. The edge of a roof crosses the top of the image. It faces the morning sun and shows the weather coming in over the sea.
Palms and ocean on Elbow Cay
From a house on Elbow Cay, this camera looks out over green ground and palm trees to the Atlantic, with the edge of a roof across the top of the image. It faces the morning sun.
It shows the weather and the light over the ocean off Hope Town, from the sunrise to the afternoon clouds.
The candy-striped lighthouse
The Elbow Reef Lighthouse was built in 1863 to warn ships away from the reefs off the Abacos, and it is one of the last lighthouses in the world still worked the old way, with a kerosene lamp and a clockwork mechanism wound by hand. The village was founded by Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution, and it lived from boat-building, fishing and salvage. Hurricane Dorian struck the Abacos in 2019, and Hope Town has been rebuilding since.
When to watch Hope Town
The Bahamas keep Eastern Time, with daylight saving from March to November. Mornings are best, with the sun rising over the Atlantic. The hurricane season runs from June to November.
Around Hope Town
Elbow Cay has long Atlantic beaches, good surf at its southern end and the harbour in the village. Marsh Harbour, the main town of the Abacos, is across the Sea of Abaco, and Man-O-War Cay, with its boat-builders, and Great Guana Cay are a short boat ride away.
Getting to Hope Town
Flights land at Marsh Harbour, on Great Abaco; from there, a ferry crosses to Hope Town in about twenty minutes. On the island, people get around on foot, by bicycle or in golf carts.
