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spotted here cavorting with a woman who was not his wife - on a yacht appropriately
named
Monkey Business
!
In ensuing decades the Biminis became a major stopover for drug shipments. The work
of the US and Bahamian authorities continues; in June 2004 the US attorney general an-
nounced the smashing of an international cocaine-trafficking network, in which Bahamians
were arrested in the Biminis, New Providence and Eleuthera.
The Biminis have been featured in films such as
Cocoon
and
Silence of the Lambs.
Getting There & Around
Most visitors fly into the Biminis, while others arrive by mail boat or private yacht. The
Bimini International Airport
(BIM; 242-347-3101) is on South Bimini.
Continent-
al Airlines
(
www.continental.com
)
offers the only major commercial service between the
Biminis and the US, flying daily to and from Fort Lauderdale.
The following airlines fly between the Biminis and other Bahamian islands:
Regional Air
( 242-347-4115;
www.goregionalair.com
) Flies between Freeport and
Bimini three times daily.
Western Air
( 242-347-4100;
www.westernairbahamas.com
)
Flies between Nassau and
Bimini twice daily.
One-way fares include flights to Nassau ($65, twice daily) and Bimini International Airport
flights to Freeport ($70, once daily).
A minibus meets all commercial flights into the airport. Pay the driver $5, which includes
the ride to the ferry dock and the ferry fare to North Bimini.
With only one compact settlement on North Bimini, feet are the main transportation for
getting around, although bicycles and golf carts are easily hired for longer excursions.
SIGHTS
NORTH BIMINI
Narrow but exquisite beaches line the west side of North Bimini - the wonderfully named
Radio Beach
,
Blister Beach
and
Spook Hill Beach
are among the most popular, though
only Radio Beach has public facilities. further north, the wide white
Bimini Bay Beach
is
the hands-down beauty queen of the bunch.
Bimini Museum
MUSEUM
(King's Hwy, Alice Town; admission $2; 9am-9pm Mon-Sat, noon-9pm Sun) Up a rick-
ety staircase just across the street from the ferry dock, this one-room museum tells the is-
land's history through sun-bleached, water-stained newspaper clippings and Xeroxed pho-
tos. Check out the pics of Hemingway standing proudly in front of a row of just-caught
