Cat Island, The Bahamas The late Sir Sidney Poitier grew up on this stunning, sparsely populated, 150-square-mile island, so you would be forgiven for thinking there’s a remarkable cinematic quality to the place: the breezy pink sands of Greenwood, the endless, uncrowded wonder of Old Bight Beach, the intoxicating percussion of rake and scrape,  the otherwordly energy of Father Jerome’s Hermitage monastery on Mount Alvernia (the highest point in The Bahamas).