Cat Island

Father Jerome had built himself a retirement home from thousands of stones, a one-man monastery that looks ancient, as if plucked from an Irish landscape.

It is another hot and windy day on Exuma Sound. I’m low on food and water; bound for a little settlement that can provide neither. You may wonder why I would do such an odd thing, especially when the fishing has been so fruitless lately, but New Bight Settlement on Cat Island is a place like no other.

Despite the crowd visiting the Bahamas in the stormy season, few are willing to visit places such as Cat and Eleuthera islands because they lack harbors with all-around protection.