" That's Bimini, summed up by a character in Hemingway's novel "Islands in the Stream.
Daily scheduled air service is available to Bimini from Nassau, Grand Bahama Island and Florida.
Tourists who venture near the docks may run into Saunders, Bimini's most well-known resident.
Anglers have been traveling to Bimini for decades to snare bonefish, snapper, tuna and wahoo.
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, when King wrote his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Bimini.
Even though Bimini is still a sleepy little island, change is coming fast.
When he first stepped foot on this soil, I could tell there was something special about Dr. King and Bimini.
"When you look at the ocean in Bimini you can often see a dozen different shades of blue and green, " said Capt.
He sweeps his hand around the Bimini, pointing to its bar, where Swisher-brand floor mats and beer towels soak up spilled suds.
There is only one airport serving Bimini -- South Bimini Airport (BIM).
She holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
"People come to Bimini because it's a laid-back destination, " Anthony Stuart, general manager of the Bimini Tourist Office, said in a recent interview.
Hemingway found Bimini, but Harold Hartman, onetime owner of a New Jersey box company, made the tiny island of Staniel Cay his adopted home.
King also returned to Bimini in 1968 to write the last speech he delivered, to the sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, before his death.
But that income isn't exactly the stuff of winters in Bimini.
Bimini is known as the big-game fishing capital of the world.
Fifty feet beneath the sea, Bimini offers an array of shipwrecks, shark dives, swim-through caverns and tunnels and colorful coral heads resting on the ocean floor.
The following year, she completed what remains the longest swim in history without a shark cage: 102.5 miles from Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
With 1, 600 residents in Bimini, there are no crowds or long lines and rush-hour traffic is often just a three-golf-cart pile-up in a hotel parking lot.
For me, Bimini has always been a tranquil place to escape the commotion of big-city living, a sandy haven where I can sit and listen to the ocean waves gently slapping the shoreline.
North Bimini is only seven miles long and less than a mile wide, so walking and biking along the main road -- "The King's Highway" -- is the best way to experience Bimini.
Take a leisurely stroll through Alice Town, Bimini's main settlement that dates back to 1848, and you'll find a cozy collection of small shops, family-owned restaurants and bars, one bank and plenty of engaging conversation.
I've traveled to Bimini many times over the years and even though swimming, eating, reading, talking and drinking consumed most of my days, exploring Bimini's enchanting underwater world was also at the top of my to-do list.
Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.
In addition to winning multiple swimming marathons, she was one of the first women to encircle the island of Manhattan, and she holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
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The first group of islands in the Bahamas chain, Bimini -- with the small islands of North Bimini and South Bimini at its core -- is only about 50 miles from Miami, but the slow-and-easy lifestyle on the historic atoll feels like a world away.
Once the fiberglass hull arrives in the Foley, Alabama, shop, Caribiana's craftsmen customize the details: cushion fabrics, engine type, rails, ropes, fishing-rod and cup holders, picnic tables, Bimini tops, bronze hardware, and of course all the hand-finished teak you can handle in the floorboards, rub rail, steering pedestal, and helm seat.
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