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LYC Commodore Sends Letter of Thanks for Successful 2010 Bimini Blast Event at the BBGC
26 Sep 20105:49 PM
The Commodore of the Lauderdale Yacht Club recently sent a letter to the staff of the Bimini Big Game Club expressing his gratitude to the BBGC for hosting a sucessful “Bimini Blast”, which is the LYC’s annual gathering in Bimini:
Click here to see a photo album of the 2010 “Bimini Blast” event at the BBGC.
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![](mailto:?subject=LYC Commodore Sends Letter of Thanks for Successful 2010 Bimini Blast Event at the BBGC&body=The Commodore of the Lauderdale Yacht Club recently sent a letter to the staff of the <a title="Bimini Big Game Club web site" href="http://www.biminibiggameclub.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a> expressing his gratitude to the BBGC for hosting a sucessful "Bimini Blast", which is the LYC's annual gathering in Bimini:
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<a title="Bimini Blast 2010 at the Bimini Big Game Club" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=13362&id=127094040665962&saved" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see a photo album of the 2010 "Bimini Blast" event at the BBGC. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/lyc-commodore-sends-letter-of-thanks-for-successful-2010-bimini-blast-event-at-the-bbgc/){kind=link}
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![](mailto:?subject=Southern Cross Club in Little Cayman Joins Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts as an Expedition Property&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/scc1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" id="i-1856" alt="Image" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/scc1.jpg?w=650" /></a>FORT LAUDERDALE, FL—FEBRUARY 4, 2014 – Cayman Island’s iconic hideaway resort, the Southern Cross Club on Little Cayman, has joined the Expedition Collection of <a title="GHO web site" href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts</a>. The announcement was made today by Mark Ellert, President of Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts. Established in 1954, Southern Cross Club is a recipient of the World Travelers Award for Leading Boutique Resort in 2013 and is rated #1 by TripAdvisor as the top B&B in Little Cayman. The resort today becomes the eighth member of the elite Expedition Collection of Guy Harvey’s rapidly growing Outpost system, which currently covers Florida, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico and Galapagos Islands. “As a resident of nearby Grand Cayman, the Southern Cross Club is my favorite place to relax, “ notes Guy Harvey, Outpost Chairman. “The diving is truly extraordinary; the best the Caymans has to offer.” Located approximately 60 miles northeast of Grand Cayman with fewer than 200 residents, Little Cayman is also home to the acclaimed <a title="CCMI web site" href="http://reefresearch.org/" target="_blank">Central Caribbean Marine Institute</a>, whose Chairman is Peter Hillenbrand, owner of the Southern Cross Club. “Peter is a very close friend and a dedicated steward of the institute’s work in the conservation of coral reef ecosystems”, adds Harvey. “The Club’s commitment to conservation through education is matched only by its superior facilities, excellent service and attentive management.” Featuring spacious and colorful ocean-view beachfront bungalows, the casually comfortable Southern Cross Club offers top-of-class in-house diving and sport fishing operations. Little Cayman is one of three islands that comprise the Cayman Islands. “The Southern Cross Club sits on a powder white sand beach that stretches to a horizon dotted with palm trees and sapphire blue water,” comments Outpost President, Mark Ellert. “The club has the feel of an elegant safari camp, where beach and bonefish are the tropical substitute. Here you hunt with a 9 weight flyrod and a GoPro camera. ” With its tropical seclusion, miles of shallow flats, and deep ocean canyons just offshore, Little Cayman is the sport fishing destination of choice in the Cayman Islands. “We’re honored to have the Southern Cross Club as a member of Guy Harvey Outpost,” Ellert adds. “Sustainable tourism is on full display at this outpost, and it’s so well executed here, you’ll just never want to go home.” The Guy Harvey Outpost program earlier this month welcomed Dominica’s premier hotel, Fort Young, to its Expedition portfolio. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/southern-cross-club-in-little-cayman-joins-guy-harvey-outpost-resorts-as-an-expedition-property/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Dive Bimini Opens December 1st&body=Captains Bruce Robbins and Toye Stevens Rejoin Neal Watson to Manage Dive Operations
BIMINI, THE BAHAMAS— NOVEMBER 18, 2010— <a title="Dive Bimini web page" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/dive-bimini.htm" target="_blank">Dive Bimini</a>, a top-of-class diving operation co-developed by celebrated artist, marine scientist and conservationist <a title="Guy Harvey Inc. web site" href="http://www.guyharvey.com" target="_blank">Guy Harvey</a>, along with diving pioneer, <a title="Neal Watson's web site" href="http://www.nealwatson.com" target="_blank">Neal Watson</a>, officially launches December 1st with the arrival of its new dive boat and operations team.
Dive Bimini will feature a virtual treasure trove of dive sites and theme dives reached aboard <a title="Bimini Blue dive boat" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=141470255895007&set=a.137293589646007.12989.127094040665962" target="_blank">Bimini Blue</a>, the largest dive boat in the <a title="Islands of the Bahamas web site" href="http://www.bahamas.com" target="_blank">Bahamas</a>—a glass bottom, double-decker certified for 100 passengers. Dive Bimini will also offer a wide variety of services and top-flight equipment including <a title="PADI web site" href="http://www.padi.com" target="_blank">PADI</a> and SCUBA certification, rentals and air fills and a Bauer compressor.
The dive operation will be managed by Captains Bruce Robbins and Toye Stevens. The couple has extensive experience operating land-based and liveaboard dive operations throughout the Bahamas. Married since the mid-80’s, this seasoned dive couple is returning to <a title="Bimini web site" href="http://www.bahamas.com/out-islands/bimini" target="_blank">Bimini</a> where they started their dive career alongside Neal Watson. Captain Bruce will run the boat, with his wife, Captain Toye, having responsibility for diver services, operation of the <a title="The Outfitter Shop web page" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/the-outfitter-shop.htm" target="_blank">Outfitter Shop</a> and other watersport activities at the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bruce-robbins-and-toye-stevens.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-282" title="Dive Bimini's Bruce Robbins and Toye Stevens" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bruce-robbins-and-toye-stevens.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="215" /></a>
Located at the legendary Bimini Big Game Club in historic Alice Town, Dive Bimini is part of <a title="About Guy Harvey Outpost" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/aboutus.htm" target="_blank">Guy Harvey’s Outpost Resorts</a> program that combines family-theme <a title="About Fishing at the BBGC" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/fishing.htm" target="_blank">fishing</a>, <a title="About Diving at the BBGC" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/diving.htm" target="_blank">diving</a> and <a title="About Adventure Sports at the BBGC" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/the-pursuits.htm" target="_blank">adventure sport activities</a> with marine and wildlife conservation, science and education. The Bimini Big Game Club is the first of several Guy Harvey Outposts planned throughout the region, of which diving will be a primary component.
“Bimini has no shortage of great dive sites: Reefs, Wrecks, Walls, Drift Dives and our famous Atlantis Road and Shark Dive Experience- you name it,” said Watson, known fondly as The Dive God within the scuba diving community.
Last month, <a title="Bimini's Atlantis Road - AOL Travel" href="http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/08/05/top-10-underwater-travel-experiences/" target="_blank">Bimini’s famed Atlantis Road was voted the top dive experience in the world by AOL users</a>.
“I personally prefer the wall dives and Bimini shark encounters,” noted Watson, while acknowledging the many varied experiences include swimming with wild spotted dolphin, which is a rarity in the scuba diving world.
“Suffice it to say, the number of amazing dive sites, the abundance of large animals, and Neal’s personal familiarity with Bimini, will all make for memorable diving that will bring you back time and time again,” said Dr. Harvey, who has spent much of his life diving. “In my travels on dive expeditions, it’s safety first, followed by experience and fun. With Neal, Bruce and Toye we have the complete package.”
The legendary Bimini Big Game Club officially re-opened this summer as a Guy Harvey Outpost Resort & Marina following completion of a $3,500,000 renovation that included all guest rooms, the new <a title="BBGC's Big Game Bar & Grill" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10405&id=127094040665962" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Bar & Grill</a>, and the Outfitter Shop, a retail experience featuring sportswear, fishing supplies and gifts. For reservations and more information on Dive Bimini and the Big Game Club, please call 800-867-4764 or visit the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club web site</a>.
About Captains Bruce Robbins and Toye Stevens
Married since 1986, Captains Bruce and Toye bring 30 years of diving experience to Dive Bimini, coming to Alice Town after spending most of the past twenty years in Key West, where they commanded a 120' live-aboard dive operation specializing in the Dry Tortugas, and most recently, a fleet of tournament sportfishing boats for a dedicated off-shore angler. In addition to their diving and fishing experience, during this time the couple enjoyed owing and operating a Key West based outfitter offering backcountry eco-tours though out the lower Florida Keys.
Both seasoned Bahamas divers, this dynamic dive couple started their careers as dive instructors right here in Bimini, working alongside Neal Watson, and later running Neal Watson Undersea Adventure dive operations in Andros and Chubb Cay. In between these two career stops, Captains Bruce and Toye owned and operated a 60' live-aboard charter sailboat, exploring all the top Bahamas dive destinations by specializing in all-inclusive Bahamian scuba dive trips.
The couple are both USCG Master 100 ton captains and fully licensed PADI Instructors. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/dive-bimini-opens-december-1st/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=A Paddle Trip Even Lewis & Clark Would Have Skipped&body=<img class=" size-medium wp-image-3016 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/paddle.jpg?w=300" alt="paddle" width="300" height="267" />By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
Paddling the marshy interior of Everglades National Park makes you feel like you are the first one ever to explore the region. You won't see any humans other than your companions. You won't encounter much trash, save for a stray deflated Mylar balloon here and there. The only mechanical sounds you'll hear come from the occasional small airplane overhead. You come to truly appreciate the exquisite natural beauty of this vast 1.5-million-acre wilderness known as the "River of Grass". And you will really, really wish that it was more river and less grass--especially after 22 miles of slogging in a single day.
A group of about 20 men and women whose names will be withheld to protect the uncertain status of their mental health embarked on Halloween on what was supposed to be a day-long exploration of Taylor Slough extending from the park's Homestead entrance southwest to Nine Mile Pond near Flamingo. The trip was the brainchild of a veteran local Everglades explorer we'll call "Tom" who leads these out-of-the-way paddling adventures annually, dubbed "Invitationals". "Tom" never follows the trails on park brochures, instead mapping out his routes using Google Maps and GPS.
Setting out before dawn in canoes and kayaks from an airboat trail that used to be the Ingraham Highway pre-dating the park's 1947 establishment, the group pushed, pulled, poled and paddled for hours through thickets of spikerush, sawgrass and periphyton -- a spongy algae variously described as elephant snot or monkey puke. It actually smells pretty good, kind of like PineSol. But it is no fun to navigate, especially when your paddle blades catapult thick wads of it onto you and your boat. Unseasonably warm temperatures and very little breeze added to the discomfort.
The going was so slow through the shallow water and dense grass that the group hadn't covered even half the distance by the time we stopped for lunch in a small patch of shade beside a tree island.
While everyone was breaking out their water bottles and lunchboxes, one paddler suddenly flipped upside down in his kayak. At first, I thought he'd been startled by a snake or something. But when he didn't crawl out from under the kayak right away, several people nearby leapt from their boats, pulled him out of the water and righted his boat. He was conscious, but pale and dazed.
One of his rescuers, fortunately, was a physician who checked him out, pronounced a touch of heat exhaustion, and said he would be fine after taking in electrolyte fluids. But he was too run down to paddle much, so he took my spot in the bow of Tom's canoe and I took over the kayak.
I would like to say the trip became easier, but only in small increments. Water levels rose a bit higher as we neared Craighead's Pond-- site of a raised platform and defunct science experiment. But after a couple more miles, I was growing tired from the drag of the grass and the constant shipping of slimy algae into the kayak.
To no one's surprise, the sun set and the sky grew dark well before we entered the mangrove labyrinth of Nine Mile Pond. Nearly everyone had headlamps or flashlights and GPS units that tracked true, so there was little chance of getting lost. But of course, hordes of mosquitoes and gnats appeared as soon as the light faded, making an uncomfortable journey even worse. At least the air cooled off.
But with about five miles yet to go, I was pretty exhausted. At our next rest stop in the dark, I traded the kayak to a young woman triathlete in exchange for her seat in her uncle's canoe. Paddling in the bow with him in the stern felt like a spa day compared to mushing in the kayak.
With no further misadventures, the entire group somehow arrived safely at the Nine Mile Pond parking lot about 8:45 p.m.-- a distance of 22 miles in 13 1/2 hours.
As we made landfall, my canoe partner began whistling the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah"-- wrong holiday, but an entirely appropriate anthem under the circumstances.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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![](mailto:?subject=Connected Warriors Gets Guy Harvey Outpost Support&body=Dear Christian,
Thank you for your kind words. We at Guy Harvey Outpost are moved by your letter and want you to know we are giving back. Nothing like the sacrifice you and your family have made. We will keep giving back. It is not always easy to find the right vehicle through which to help a cause. We have chosen Connected Warriors as ours.
Guy Harvey Outpost properties donated trips, art, fishing tackle and other prizes to <a href="http://connectedwarriors.org/">Connected Warriors </a>for their Annual Fundraiser this week. We want to honor all of our Veterans and their families who give so much. Connected Warriors provides Veterans and their families with free yoga classes. Ongoing studies indicate that regular yoga practice is more effective in the long term treatment of anxiety, depression and PTSD than conventional treatments.
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Christian, thank you for your inspiration and for your enthusiasm for our efforts.
We all look forward to your next visit.
Take good care of yourself,
Your friends at Guy Harvey Outpost
PS. In addition to Guy Harvey Outpost's trip donations, support for Connected Warriors our staff reached out to the broader Guy Harvey Outpost Family. A special thanks to all those who jumped in with generous donations for Connected Warriors. Among those who answered the call when we asked for contributions for our Veterans were:
<a href="http://http://www.guyharvey.com/index.html">Guy Harvey </a>
<a href="http://www.titosvodka.com/">Tito's Handmade Vodka</a>
<a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/florida/islamorada-fl.html">The Islander Resort, a Guy Harvey Outpost</a>
<a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/green-turtle-cay-abacos/overview.html">The Green Turtle Club, a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Lodge</a>
<a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/bimini-bahamas.html">The Bimini Sands Resort & Marina, a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Lodge</a>
<a href="http://lmrtackle.com/andy-moyes-skirted-lures.aspx">Moyes Big Game Tactical Fishing Lures</a>
<a href="http://lmrtackle.com/">LMR Custom Tackle</a>
<a href="http://tropicalfitnessadventures.com">Yoga Ned</a>
More Information on Guy Harvey Outpost: <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/" target="_parent">http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/</a>
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