TREASURE ISLAND

If you’ve wondered while watching the Pirates of the Caribbean films where they get the pristine white beaches for Captain Jack and his crew to swagger around on, then ‘be looking no further than the Exumas islands in the Bahamas, me hearties’.

Its extraordinary sapphire-blue waters and 365 islands have featured in several of the films including Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End.

The Bahamas get several name checks in the films, too, reflecting the islands’ famed status as a ‘pirate republic’ during the 18th century.

The Exumas are part of the wider and 700-island strong Bahamas north of Cuba and south east of Florida, and their relative isolation and jaw-drop- ping beauty has made them a favoured bolthole of the rich and famous.

You may be interested to hear that a private island in the Exumas is now for sale which, it is said by agent Knight Frank, is one of the most impressive in the central Bahamas.

Little Pipe Cay was bought 15 years ago by the current owners and turned from an uninhabited 38-acre island into a mini private resort with five houses, four beaches and several hundred feet of dock frontage.

“Little Pipe Cay is what dreams are made of,” says Edward de Mallet Morgan of Knight Frank.

Only accessible by seaplane, it is available as a freehold island including a main house with nine bedrooms, and is for sale at $85 million.

More information from knightfrank.co.uk