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Bimini: Fishing, Diving, Hemingway, Bars, Boating |
Bimini, just 81km (50 miles) off the east coast of Florida (and the setting for Hemingway's Islands in the Stream) lures the big-game fisher, the yachter from Miami, and even the drug dealer from south Florida. (The proximity to the Florida mainland helps make drug smuggling big business here.) Bimini is home to world-famous sportfishing, excellent yachting and cruising, and some good scuba diving. Anglers will find seas swarming with tuna, dolphinfish, amberjack, white and blue marlin, swordfish, barracuda, and shark, along with many other varieties. Bonefish are also plentiful around the flats off the coast of Alice Town, the capital, but the blue marlin is the prize. (Bahamians think so highly of this fish that they even put it on their $100 bill.) Scuba divers can see black coral trees over the Bimini Wall and reefs off Victory Cay.Bimini is still known as the big-game fishing capital of the world, and fishermen still come here throughout the year to fish in flats, on the reefs, and in the streams. Ernest Hemingway came to write and fish, and here, he wrote much of To Have and Have Not. His novel, Islands in the Stream put Bimini on the map.
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More . . . | |  | Bimini: Fascinating History: Gun Running, Rum-Running, Drug Smuggling, and the Best Deep Sea Fishing in the World!! |  by Conchy Joe
Bimini's history is very interesting. Since it is the closest country to the USA, a lot of devilish deeds are committed. It all started during the Civil War, when arms were supplied to the South, via Europe and Bimini. For particulars, go to the Bimini History page to see the details. Smuggling, rum-running, cocaine smuggling, deep-sea fishing, Hemingway, titans of American business, Adam Clayton Powell, Gary Hart; all are a part of Biminni's colorful past. If you really want to delve into Bimini's History, get Ashley Saunders History of Bimini...
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Norbert Kox: Ex-biker, Outcast Artist, Visionary Surrealist |  (Click picture to go to his site)
Bimini is peopled by eclectic personalities- the fishermen and smugglers, the Hemingway scholars and the Hemingway compatriots, the lawless and the lovelorn.
Part-time Bimini resident, Norbert Kox has a very unusual background, as well as producing some very unusual, great art.
He ran with the outcasts of society, became a notorious outlaw biker. A vision was the key factor in turning his thinking towards spiritual matters. He became a recluse. For the next ten years he meditated, painted, and lived by himself in the woods near Suring, Wisconsin. He has had showings, all over the world, while developing an attatchment to Bimini, its people and lifestyle ....To see a slideshow of his unusual, Hieronymous Bosch-type paintings, go HERE.....for his website, go HERE...
| Norbert Kox managed to get his work banned by every major religious group in the U. S. He has secluded himself on Bimini, devoting his time to his work...."
"Vegetarian Casserole"
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