Bimini

Ernest Hemingway's "islands in the stream" perch on the edge of the Gulf Stream, just 50mi (80km) east of Miami. The Bimini group is barely 10 sq mi (26 sq km) and flat as a flounder. North Bimini (locally referred to as simply 'Bimini') is shaped like an inverted crab's claw, 7mi (11km) long and no more than 400yd (366m) across at the main island's widest point. Below it and separated by only 150yd (137m) of water lies South Bimini, a chunkier and virtually uninhabited plot of land. Most everything happens in Alice Town on Bimini, especially in midsummer, when visitors arrive in flocks to putter along in the slow lane - it's the kind of place to fish, relax, sit around drinking beer, and tell big-fish stories. The scene gets a little crazier during spring break, when college students whoop it up with wet-T-shirt contests and drunken good times.

The islands are well known for their good fishing, and you'll be spoiled for choice: wahoo, tuna, sailfish, mako shark, barracuda, and, above all, blue marlin and other billfish put up a bruising battle. They're all waiting for you to cast your lure and notch up a record catch that would make 'Papa' Hemingway jealous. Scuba divers are lured to the islands' crystal-clear waters. There's the Bimini Road off Bimini, alluringly claimed to be part of the 'lost city' of Atlantis. And there's the famous Bimini Wall, plummeting over 4000ft (1219m). Bimini is also famous for dives with wild dolphins. Pods of rare Atlantic spotted dolphins are regularly seen, and they like nothing better than to cavort and swim nose to nose with humans.
 

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