Bimini Big Game Club Resort & Marina
Resorts World Bimini Marina
Bimini Blue Water Marina
Bimini Sands Resort & Marina, South Bimini
North Bimini Harbour
Dive with great hammerhead sharks each winter
Snorkel the Bimini Road off Paradise Point
Swim with wild dolphins on the shallow banks
Explore the Healing Hole by kayak or tender
Visit Dolphin House, Ashley Saunders’s handbuilt art home
Alice Town
Dolphin House
End of the World Bar
South Bimini
Sapona Wreck
Winter, from December through April, brings the calmest seas and the great hammerhead shark season, which peaks in January and February. Marlin fishing is best from late spring through summer, when the Gulf Stream’s blue water pushes closest to the islands. Hurricane season runs June through November, with the highest risk concentrated in August, September and October, so many captains schedule a Bimini stop either side of that window.
South Bimini Airport (BIM) is the main gateway, a short hop of well under an hour from Fort Lauderdale or Miami and one of the closest international arrivals anywhere in the Bahamas, since Bimini sits only about fifty miles off the Florida coast. From the airport, a short ferry or water taxi crosses to Alice Town on North Bimini, where the marinas and most of the settlement are found. Many charter guests instead simply cross the Gulf Stream by boat.
Resorts World Bimini Marina, the newest and largest of the island’s facilities, offers the most slips and the easiest customs clearance for vessels arriving from Florida. Bimini Big Game Club and Bimini Blue Water Marina, both in Alice Town, sit closer to the bars and restaurants and keep more of the island’s old fishing-camp character. Bimini Sands, on South Bimini, suits guests who prefer a quieter base near the airport and the Healing Hole.
One to two nights cover the essentials: a dive or snorkel trip to the Bimini Road and the Sapona wreck, an evening at the End of the World Bar, and a look at Dolphin House. Anglers chasing marlin or booked onto a hammerhead dive often stay three or four nights to allow for a weather day, since conditions on the open Gulf Stream can change quickly. Bimini’s closeness to Florida also makes it a natural first or last stop on a wider Bahamas itinerary.
The Bimini Road is a half-mile line of flat, roughly rectangular limestone blocks lying in shallow water off Paradise Point, first noticed by divers in 1968 and quickly linked by some to Edgar Cayce’s earlier prediction that Atlantis would resurface near Bimini around that year. Most geologists classify the formation as naturally fractured beachrock, a common feature of the Bahamian shelf, rather than a man-made structure. Whatever its origin, it remains a popular, easy snorkel in clear, shallow water just off North Bimini.
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