Where the Atlantic and Caribbean meet

Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is where the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea come together only through a rock slit, bringing the most exciting images of nature.

Eleuthera is one of many Bahamas national islands, located about 80km east of the capital Nassau. The island is 180 km long, about 1.6 km wide. The point that makes Eleuthera famous is the light blue waters of the Caribbean Sea facing the deep green and thousands of meters deep of the Atlantic Ocean just over a cliff.

The view from above easily recognizes the difference in color of the two sides of the sea.(Photo: Bahamasvacation.com)

One of the best places to look at the two adjacent sea surfaces is the Glass Window Bridge . The bridge connects the town of Gregory with the Lower Bogue district at the narrowest point of the island. This is also the point most visited by visitors when coming to Eleuthera.

Here, you can see with your own eyes and compare the two different colors of the Atlantic and Caribbean. At the foot of the bridge is a low strip of rock like a half-shield bar separating the coast.

In the last century there was a natural stone bridge connecting the north and south islands of Eleuthera. By the 1940s, many storms broke the Glass Window's concrete structure and bridge that had been replaced.

Two ocean currents melt into each other in the middle of the cliff just over 10m.(Photo: Marie-Ange Ostré)

Decades away, Glass Window is regularly maintained and repaired. The great typhoon of 1992 caused strong damage to the bridge, which made it difficult for double-shore traffic. Followed by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 destroyed almost the entire Glass Window and it took several months to reach the Queen highway.

Eleuthera's geographic surface has also been heavily changed since then. Workers making roads on the island must always be busy with the reinforcement of the road and bridge by the impact of corrosion from the waves.

Visitors can drive or rent a car to visit a special bridge. If you go up the rocky slope to reach out to the sea, in this perspective, you will definitely feel that Mother Nature is truly immensely creative.

The Atlantic is strong and noisy, while the Caribbean seems more calm.(Photo: Pleasetakemeto.com)

However, you must be very careful when visiting the bridge with the surrounding rock seams, especially when the sea is rough. Extremely powerful waves can come and spill over the sphere at any time. Because there is no reef that limits the power of waves from offshore to shore, there is a huge risk that people and vehicles are knocked into the sea.

In addition, at Eleuthera, visitors can also play windsurfing on the Surfers coast south of Gregory town, on the Atlantic coast, where beautiful and high waves are just behind Hawaii. Life on the island is very peaceful and people are very hospitable. You can visit popular restaurants and eateries to enjoy indigenous seafood or relax by the beach bar.