Wildlife· Long Cay (Fortune Island)· Bahamas — Eleuthera, Andros & the Out Islands

Long Cay salt-pond flamingos

22° 36.2′ N · 74° 20.0′ W · approximate

A small flock of American flamingos feeds and preens around Long Cay's salt pond and along its coast, one of the few places in the central southern Bahamas a cruiser can walk up to them.

Eleuthera

Practical

Position approximate (Long Cay island centroid in OpenStreetMap; the salt pond lies inland near Albert Town). Expedition parties found the birds by walking the edge of the salt pond from Albert Town, and by dinghy along the coast. Keep well back and don't flush the flock; go early or late in the day.

Best for

Flamingo watching on foot from Albert Town

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