Do You Hear What I Hear?

If you live on Paradise Island or Nassau in the Bahamas, you may have seen the colourful Christmas boat parade in the harbour in the run up to the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

People with waterfront homes were lucky to be able to sit on their porches and watch the boats glide to and fro with Christmas lights shining like jewels and the musical sounds of the Bahamas filling the air.

Others watched by boat and many more lined the waterfront and parks to watch the spectacle.

Christmas in the islands of the Bahamas is magical.

The sounds of goat skin drums and horns fill the air with the dazzling Junkanoo street festivals.

The festival springs from our African roots. Musicians and dancers come together in an explosion of colour in the wee hours of Boxing Day, the holiday after Christmas, and New Year's morning.

It often follows a night of Church, revelry and spectacular firework displays stretching from east to west and then in Nassau harbour under the shadow of the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.

As midnight ushers in the New Year, the horns of the mail boats berthed under Paradise Bridge and the brilliantly lit cruise ships in Nassau Harbour join together in a crescendo.

Party goers line the shore and the bridge to toast in the New Year in the Bahamas.

We wish you Peace and Prosperity in 2014.

We look forward to helping you sell or buy your dream home in the Bahamas in the New Year.

Talk to you soon! We're off to listen to the National Youth Choir. Listen

Your Bahamas real estate team.