Staniel Cay is small (5km^2) and remote (75 miles away from Nassau), and gives a feeling of a private island. We booked a tour with Staniel Cay Adventures, which makes a one-day visit possible. There are a lot of private jets arriving here every day. Although the island has a population of less than 118 full-time residents according to the wiki, there are vacation houses where the rich people from USA flying in with their family and friends from time to time. One of the locals was talking to me at the airport while she was waiting for a US family “I work for a vacation villa here, and the family came in 6 times last year with their private jet”. Wow! You can also come here by yourself by booking the regional airlines, finding the resorts, hotels and lodges on this island, and then ordering tours to go out to the nearby islands.

Bahamas airlines — the names sound relax and local, do they? 🙂 I heard from the local that FlamingoAir is often delayed when flying back from Staniel Cay.

It’s my first time to take small airlines of 20ish people. It’s quite exciting!

The views from the airplane are gorgeous. It’s almost like we were taking a helicopter tour of the Bahamas islands—crystal clear water, harmonic green blue, white sand bars, beautiful curves of the coast …

Staniel Cay airport is very windy. With so much cross-wind, the pilot lands the aircraft on one wheel. It took about half an hour to arrive here from Nassau; however, when we went back, the high-wing plane flies much lower and slower, and it detoured towards the big island of Bahamas, so the flight almost took close to 2 hours.

Sitting in the terminal, you embrace the warm island winds in the face.

This raw island has a lot of nature and local stuffs.

The dock is 5-minutes walk away from the airport. Our guide picked us up at the airport and our boat was already waiting.