Harbour Island News and Reviews

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Miami Heat dedicates basketball court in Harbour Island
...the Heat brings youth programs to The Bahamas, including charitable events, basketball clinics and educational programs.

A Passage To India
An interview with India Hicks about a new book written by her and her Mother, Pamela Mountbatten, called “India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power.”

Delta Air Lines will soon be flying to George Town, Exuma and North Eleuthera. Carrier officials announced the airline will fly between Atlanta and The Islands of The Bahamas with nonstop service to the three outer islands beginning on June 16, 2007.

The Vic-Hum Club – a Briland landmark
Opened in 1955, the club is considered a museum and has hosted an impressive array of international celebrities over the years...

Harbour Island Shoot Dominates '06 S.I. Swimsuit Issue
Harbour Island, The Bahamas was the location for a blockbuster reunion of eight of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s most legendary supermodels in July 2005.

Sports Illustrated Hits the Pink Sands Beach   Harbour Island scores another photo op and hits the cover of S.I.'s '06 swimsuit edition.

“Harbour Island, the number one, pink-sand, get-away destination could serve as an example to other Bahama Islands as a true leader would. When you consider the size of Harbour Island compared to 15 other islands in The Bahamas, and then some 40+ islands in the Caribbean, there is something going on in Harbour Island that could be a model for the rest of The Bahamas...”   Vistors love Briland

“Two international magazines recently chose two Bahamian islands as destinations of choice...”   Harbour Island, Exuma Named Best Destinations

“Briland's win extends a hot streak for The Bahamas in some of the most widely read magazines on the globe... The Islands Of The Bahamas was named THE HOT ISLAND for 2004 by Condé Nast Traveler (circ. 780,000) in the magazine's annual Hot List.”

The Kentucky Watercolor Society and University of Kentucky Emeritus Professor of Art Joseph Fitzpatrick invite you to a landscape painting workshop in Harbour Island, Bahamas, January 26 - 31, 2008.

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Reviews & Trip Reports

Motor Boating Magazine -- “Pink Paradise - Harbour Island, famous for its pink sand beach, is one of the most laid back yet most sophisticated destinations in all of the Bahamas.”

The UK Independent -- “The best beach of all? Head for Harbour Island, or “Briland”, as the locals call it... So perfect is this three-mile stretch of sand that you won't see a single strand of seaweed encroaching on the fantasy, just pink-tinged powder shelving into opalescent turquoise.”

Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine -- “The Bahamas, among other Caribbean countries and luxurious locales, is on a list of “dreamy” and “romantic beaches”... Harbour Island is rated as having one of the most romantic beaches in the Bahamas.”

USA Today -- “The Bahamas is overloaded with perfect beaches, and this tiny isle just off much larger Eleuthera is one of its best. The sand really is pink — subtly, not shockingly...”

Harbour Island's Quiet Charms Seem Countless

“But none offer greater allure than the tiny island's wondrous stretch of pink sand beach...”  Harbour Island Charms

A Bahamian Isle Lets The World Rush By

“A very pleasing little place it is, encircled by beautiful coconut groves, and dreaming by the green water in an air of solitude and peace, which is very bewitching to one who is weary of the rush and giddy world of the 19th Century...”  The Finest Beach I Have Seen - Harbour Island Review

Pink Sands Beach -- The Best in the World

“Briland Sweet Eh!” by the Brilanders is a song that reflects the state of mind of any visitor, Bahamian or foreign to Harbour Island. The heavily charged and euphoric atmosphere coupled with the historical and natural beauty blends together to produce a social environment that has long been described as “sweetness...”  Pink Sands Hotel History

Nowhere is Hotter than Harbour Island

As it says in a handwritten scrawl up at Uncle Ralph’s Aura Corner:”“The last step before you get to Heaven is Harbour Island.”  Next Season's Chic Retreat - Harbour Island

Harbour Island trip - 'Fear over the Ferry'

“When I was 11-years-old, a freak boating accident left me paralysed on my left side for over an hour, and that traumatic experience was immortalised by a small, almost unnoticeable indentation in the middle of my forehead...”  Harbour Island Trip Report

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