16 Best Places to Shop in The Abacos, Bahamas

This shop offers the signature Abaco Ceramics white-clay pottery with a variety of island- and sea-inspired designs. The Funky Fish pattern remains a favorite. You can also pick up some fun and funky painted wooden signs and handmade quilts made with hand-dyed fabrics from sister company Bahama Dawn Designs.

This shop is popular with boaters, who stock up on duffel bags, briefcases, hats, and purses, all made from duck, a colorful, sturdy canvas fabric traditionally used for sails.

Bags of all sizes are made by hand out of recycled sails in the upstairs workshop. Sailors consider an old sail from their boat a fair trade for one of the stylish duffel bags, purses, or totes.

The gallery displays and sells original bronzes by the Johnstons—direct descendants of Randolph and Margot Johnston, who founded Little Harbour—as well as unique gold jewelry, prints, and gifts.

More than 30 different products are derived from locally grown neem trees at this shop and production plant. Salves, soaps, and lotions are organic and in many cases claim to offer medicinal benefits against skin conditions, arthritis, and even hypertension. Abaco Neem also produces an entire range of pet products. Call or e-mail in advance to arrange a tour of the production facility and nearby farm. 

At Marsh Harbour's traffic light, look for the lime green Abaco Treasures and their curious selection of fine china, crystal, perfumes, Bahamian books, and gifts.

Here you'll find a wide selection of souvenirs, beach wraps, T-shirts, arts and crafts, and Cuban cigars.

The Dive Guana shop has everything you need for your beaching and boating vacation—sunscreen, hats, shirts, and snorkel gear, as well as a variety of souvenirs, including locally made straw bags and ceramics.

This shop is on the upper-path road in a renovated Loyalist home. Come here for such Bahamian gifts as batik clothes, original driftwood carvings and prints, and nautical jewelry. They even sell the brightly colored Androsia fabric by the yard. Browse through the extensive Bahamian book collection.

This tiny shop has a large selection of beer, wine, and liquor, as well as soft drinks and snacks. It's also a good spot to load up on ice.

This store, inside a bright peach-and-turquoise building, is your best bet for hats, sandals, tropical jewelry, sportswear, and souvenirs. If you are looking for gifts to take back home, you should be able to find something cool here.

This store sells paintings by local artists, books, clothing, and other nautically oriented gifts, but the most interesting souvenirs are the half-models of sailing dinghies. These mahogany models, which are cut in half and mounted on boards, are meant to be displayed as wall hangings. Artist Joe Albury, one of the store's owners, also crafts full, 3-D boat models.

This shop sells Cuban cigars and more than 60 kinds of rum. For something completely different, get there early, order one of their famous breakfast sandwiches and brag to your friends that you had breakfast in a liquor store. You can even get the T-shirt to show you've been there, done that.

This shop sells resort wear and jewelry. Look for the locally made Abaco gold necklaces and earrings.

You'll find an array of T-shirts, hats, and souvenir items here, as well as beautiful silver and gold island-inspired jewelry made by Gary, the patriarch of this family-owned and -operated store.

Sid's has the most complete line of groceries on the island, plus a gift section that includes books on local Bahamian subjects. You can also buy conch-fritter batter here.