Eleuthera
— — the pink sand the morning leaves behind.
Not only on a wall.
“A narrow island about a hundred and ten miles long, set on the eastern edge of the Bahamian bank. The Atlantic breaks on one side and the Caribbean rests on the other, and at the Glass Window Bridge the two seas meet across a few yards of rock. The pink-sand beaches of Harbour Island take their colour from crushed red foraminifera mixed into the white coral sand. The settlements stay small.
Eleuthera, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Eleuthera is a narrow island in the central Bahamas, stretching about 180 kilometres from north to south and rarely more than a few kilometres wide. It lies roughly 80 kilometres east of Nassau across the Exuma Sound, with the open Atlantic on its eastern shore and the calmer waters of the Great Bahama Bank to the west. The island was settled in 1648 by a group of English religious dissenters from Bermuda, the Eleutheran Adventurers, who gave the island its name from the Greek for freedom. Today the population sits near eleven thousand across several small settlements.
Pink Sands Beach on Harbour Island, three miles long off the northern tip of Eleuthera, is the island's signature view. The colour comes from crushed shells of red foraminifera — Homotrema rubrum, a single-celled organism that grows on the underside of coral reefs and tints the white coral sand a soft pink. The effect is strongest at sunrise and sunset, when low light pulls the warm tone forward against the turquoise of the shallows. The same mechanism colours a few other beaches in Bermuda and on Barbuda.
Eleuthera is reached by three airports — North Eleuthera serves Harbour Island and Spanish Wells, Governor's Harbour sits at the centre, and Rock Sound covers the south. Bahamasair and several US carriers fly in from Nassau, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale, and the mailboat ferry connects with Nassau weekly. The Glass Window Bridge, near Gregory Town, is the famous narrow point where a single span of road separates the dark Atlantic from the pale Caribbean. The dry season runs roughly November through April, when trade winds keep the air clear.