It’s simply previous what may be the oldest church in The Bahamas, the St Mary the Virgin Anglican Church — or what’s left of it.
Right now, it’s a stone shell of a once-impressive construction. You possibly can really feel the vitality as you stroll previous the previous partitions and the wood planks.
You hike by the leaves and the protrusions, decreasing your head to dodge errant branches and ensuring your toes hit the appropriate rocks.
Then you definately see it, someway hidden away proper off the primary freeway on Lengthy Island.
They name it the Shrimp Gap, and it’s an apt – however inarguably odd – title for a deeply mystical kind of place.
The “gap” is an inland blue gap, glowing and sensible, tucked underneath a cave, The water is incandescent turquoise, an oasis within the coronary heart of deep Out Islands brush.
It’s known as the Shrimp Gap for the weird species of freshwater shrimp that someway inhabit it, simply seen within the gin-clear water, glad so that you can be a part of them in the event you negotiate the average cliffs you might want to climb all the way down to get in.
It’s the kind of spot that may solely exist within the Out Islands of The Bahamas — blessed with an otherworldly magnificence, seldom seen, and deeply unforgettable.
Lengthy Island is full of blue holes (together with the world-famous Dean’s Blue Gap on the south finish of the island). However this one is so deliciously surprising.
There’s simply one thing particular about this spot set proper in the course of Lengthy Island — the kind of mystical, stunning, uncanny website you’d by no means look forward to finding on the fringe of an extended, empty freeway.
However that’s the fantastic thing about Lengthy Island — a vacation spot full of all types of great secrets and techniques.
Are you heading to Lengthy Island? Don’t miss the out-of-this-world Cape Santa Maria Seaside Resort.
— CJ
