Glass Window Review

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Glass Window

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At a narrow point of the island a few miles north of Gregory Town, the Glass Bridge, a slender concrete structure, links the two sea-battered bluffs that separate the Governor's Harbour and North Eleuthera districts. Sailors going south in the waters between New Providence and Eleuthera supposedly named this area the Glass Window because they could see through the narrow cavity to the Atlantic on the other side. Stop to watch the northeasterly deep-azure Atlantic swirl together under the bridge with the southwesterly turquoise Great Bahama Bank, producing a brilliant aquamarine froth. Artist Winslow Homer found the site stunning, too. He painted Glass Window in 1885. It's thought that the bridge was a natural span until the early 1900s, when rough currents finally washed it away.

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