Samana Cay Coast

The Samana Cay coast is the shallow sea and reef water around the low, narrow island of Samana Cay in the south-eastern Bahamas, north-east of Crooked Island. Coral reefs fringe the shore and form a sharp boundary between the calm inner waters and the open Atlantic. Samana Cay is one of the islands put forward as the site of Columbus's first landfall in 1492. Lucayan canoes once crossed these reefs between the islands.