After five rounds and more than 56,000 votes, the readers have chosen their favorite. Ocean Sand, Bahamas—the runnerup in this 10th-anniversary contest—has been crowned the winner of Tournament Earth 2020. The artistic false-color rendering of sand and seaweed beds in the shallows collected 66.2 percent of the votes in the final round. Thank you to everyone who visited the site and shared in the fun....
Each of the Bahamian Islands comes with their own unique histories, character, and storylines all of which pale in comparison to the potent historical stomping ground of Cat Island, The Bahamas. Cat Island is the birthplace of “Rake and Scrape” a common genre of music indigenous to Bahamian culture and is the childhood home town of Academy Award winner, Sir Sidney Poitier bearing the highest peak in...