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I’ve Seen Beaches All Over the Caribbean. Nothing Prepared Me for the Water in Exuma.

I’ve spent much of my career traveling around the Caribbean. I’ve stood on beaches in St Barth, watched sailboats drift across bays in Saint Martin, flown over the reefs of Turks and Caicos and spent long afternoons on shorelines throughout the region. The Caribbean has no shortage of beautiful water, which is why I’ve learned to be cautious whenever someone insists that one destination stands above all the others. Then I went to Exuma. What struck me wasn’t a particular beach or a famous attraction. It wasn’t a resort, a restaurant or a boat excursion. It was the water itself. Before I...