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Andros: Diving, Isolated, Blue Holes, Fishing Paradise |
Andros Island, Bahamas some 2300 square miles in size, is perhaps the largest tract of unexplored land in the Western hemisphere. Andros is also the largest island in the Bahamas.
A coral limestone formation, Andros is dominated by thick inpenetrable bush, sliced in pieces by inland waterways, and edged by mangrove swamp. Along the east coast are the fishing and diving grounds of the Andros Barrier Reef. On the West Coast are the pristine fishing flats of the Great Bahama Bank.
The Andros Barrier Reef, the third largest in the world and the second largest and most unexplored in the western hemisphere, stretches 140 miles along the east coast of the island and rims the Tongue of the Ocean, with its 6,000-foot drop-off. Additionally Andros abounds in Blue Holes (underwater cave systems)--which have been the scene of some of the deepest underwater cave explorations in the world.
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More . . . | |  | |  by Samuel Charters
The quest to record and preserve the last vestiges of a fast-disappearing musical culture is vividly rendered in this account of a summer on the Bahamian island of Andros. A budding music historian, Charters (The Roots of the Blues) had discovered a series of Alan Lomax's Library of Congress recordings of Andros folk songs from the late 1930s... More . . . | | | Building a Boat and Following a Dream to the Bahamas |  (Award-Winning Web Site)
"I've never been as free as we were cruising on our own boat. How close can a modern person come to feeling anything remotely like true adventure? Although we travelled some of the most highly-trafficked water routes in the world, the very nature of boat travel makes each crossing seem as if it is the first. No footprints remind you of previous passagemakers and away from the markers even the most popular passages leave you as isolated as if you were adrift in the middle of the largest ocean. I had wanted a journey that would change my life. And that's what I got..." ...
More . . . | | "This was why I was out here in the middle of the Gulf Stream in a little boat -- to see what I had never seen, to see what many people will never have the chance to see...." |
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