2 Best Sights in North Bimini, Andros, Bimini, and the Berry Islands

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Alice Town's Radio Beach, Bailey Town's Blister Bay Beach, and Porgy Bay's Spook Hill Beach form an almost continuous stretch of beach for 2 miles, with more sunbathers in the south. In places you can snorkel on shallow reefs offshore. North in Resorts World is the much wider Paradise Beach with rentals, restaurant, and bar. Occasionally giving a refuge of shade, Australian pine trees line the sensational, downy sands—what Hemingway described as "floury white" in Islands in the Stream.

Bimini Roads

Avid divers shouldn't miss a trip to underwater Bimini Roads, aka The Road to Atlantis. This curious rock formation under about 20 feet of water, 500 yards offshore at Bimini Bay, is shaped like a backward letter J, some 600 feet long at the longest end. It's the shorter 300-foot extension that piques the interest of scientists and visitors. The precision patchwork of large, curved-edge stones forms a perfect rectangle measuring about 30 feet across. A few of the stones are 16 feet square. It's purported to be the "lost city" whose discovery was predicted by Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), a psychic with an interest in prehistoric civilizations. Archaeologists estimate the formation to be between 5,000 and 10,000 years old. Carvings in the rock appear to some scientists to resemble a network of highways.

North Bimini, Bahamas

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Healing Hole

Hidden in the west coast mangroves of East Bimini is the Healing Hole—a cold spring of freshwater amid the hot sea saltwater with, some say, real, and others, mythical, healing powers. Hard to get to and find, it’s best to hire a guide in a shallow boat, or, if you want exercise, in a kayak. You can only get there in mid-to-high tide, and make sure to take insect repellent. You’ll see much life above and below water. For ecolovers and adventure-seekers only.

North Bimini, Bahamas

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