Too Cheap To Stay Home! If you are looking for a great deal, Guy Harvey Outpost has them at Old Bahama Bay, now through Sept 30th. Book Junior Suites for only $150 per night weekdays and $199 Friday/Saturday …
New Flights to Bimini Launching Soon
3 Aug 20119:30 PM
By HANNAH SAMPSON | Miami Herald
Published: August 2, 2011
Bimini will be a little easier to reach after IBC Travel expands its flight schedule to inlcude flights from both Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Flights to South Bimini International Airport in the Bahamas will be available daily from at least one of the two airports starting Aug. 15th. Fort Lauderdale had service previously, but no flights had departed from Miami.
From Miami, flights will leave on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Flights from Fort Lauderdale will depart on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
The 30-minute flight on a 30-seat plane will cost $289 per person round-trip. One-way flights are $169, and kids under 2 fly for $100 round-trip or $50 one way.
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If you are looking for a great deal, <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/index.php">Guy Harvey Outpost</a> has them at Old Bahama Bay, now through Sept 30th. <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/west-end-grand-bahama-island/rest.html">Book Junior Suites</a> for only $150 per night weekdays and $199 Friday/Saturday nights (plus tax and service). Book Dockage for $1.50 weekdays and $1.75 weekends per foot, per night.
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Come and enjoy the barefoot elegance <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/west-end-grand-bahama-island/overview.html">Old Bahama Bay</a> offers couples and families. Outpost Guests receive Complementary Watersports including: Kayaking, paddle boards, sailing, snorkeling & our oceanfront pool. Up for a little off property adventure? There is great diving and fishing just minutes from our private marina. Scuba dive on the Wall or fish for Tuna, Marlin or Bonefish we have it all. And for those who just need a break, we have hammocks and umbrella drinks to help you chill out. For more information call 800 513-5257 or reservations@guyharveyoutpost.com .
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![](mailto:?subject=Cuba Un-canned: See It With the Locals&body=Here are some of the locals you will meet during <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/">Guy Harvey Outpost's</a> guided people-to-people expedition to Cuba December 13-18:
--The son of Fidel Castro's official photographer;
--the director of the Cuba's Masonic museum;
--a rural tobacco farmer;
--a mixologist who will teach you how to make the perfect Mojito.
And the locales you will visit will combine mainstream stops (Floridita --creator of the daiquiri-- and Museo de la Revolucion, stone walls with 1950s bullet holes) with way un-trodden destinations (Cueva El Palmarito --the largest cave system in Latin America, and a fishing cooperative in Cojimar, where Ernest Hemingway's captain spent most of his life).
Your hosts will be Justin White-- operator of <a href="https://www.docfordscubaexpeditions.com/">Doc Ford's Cuba Expeditions</a> and nephew of best-selling novelist Randy Wayne White--and Sports Illustrated photographer Ron Modra.
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"The people we are going to meet are incredible-- interesting, intelligent, diverse age groups," White said. "You'll see the monumental places but the targeted people and events introduce you to real people living their daily lives. The most valuable experience you can have is to be with the people and ask them questions. There are no airs put on."
With new U.S.-to-Cuba travel restrictions set to take effect in mid-September, White is taking special care to stay on the right side of the law: staying only in private lodgings, taking meals in private restaurants; interacting one-on-one with Cuban people; and travelling in a 12-member group.
"We will abide by all the policies and restrictions put in place," White said. "We focus on people-to-people exchanges."
The six-day, five-night itinerary is packed with authentic experiences: poring over photo albums with Raul Corrales, whose father shot reams of images of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his friend author Ernest Hemingway; walking the docks at Cojimar, the small fishing village where Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" was set and where the author's captain Gregorio Fuentes lived to be 104; visiting Finca Vijia where Hemingway's boat, Pilar, still sits; touring a tobacco farm and coffee plantation; and hiking to a huge cave in the countryside. It also hits some of the typical tourist spots such as the Tropicana nightclub and Old Havana. And there will be multiple opportunities to ogle (and photograph) all the old cars, with Modra coaching on the finer points of capturing images.
If you <a href="https://guyharveyoutpost.com/expeditions/cuba/">book your expedition</a> by Aug. 31, you'll receive free airfare from Fort Lauderdale to Havana. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.guyharveyoutpost.com">www.guyharveyoutpost.com</a> or call the Outpost Travel Desk at 800-513-5257. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/cuba-un-canned-see-it-with-the-locals/){kind=link}
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![](mailto:?subject=Swordfish Extravaganza II a Big Hit in South Florida&body=Kudos to <a title="Smith-Merritt Insurnace web site" href="http://www.smith-merritt.com/" target="_blank">Capt. Skip Smith</a> and the <a title="Swordfish Club web site" href="http://www.swordfishclub.org/" target="_blank">Swordfish Club</a> for the record breaking attendance at the <a title="Swordfish Extravaganza II info page" href="http://billfish.org/1356-swordfish-extravaganza-ii#continue_post" target="_blank">Swordfish Extravaganza II</a> event, which was held last week at the <a title="IGFA web site" href="http://www.igfa.org" target="_blank">IGFA</a> headquarters in <a title="Dania Beach, FL web site" href="http://www.ci.dania-beach.fl.us/" target="_blank">Dania Beach, FL</a>. Major names in the big game tackle business showcased their latest products for hooking up these behemoths, and key organizations produced informative seminars on the fishery. <a title="NOAA web site" href="http://www.noaa.gov" target="_blank">NOAA</a> and HMS gave presentations on government efforts to rebuild "trust" with recreational fishermen, and highlighted the importance of reporting your sword catch so the USA can keep a valid tally in regards to our international quota.
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[Okeechobee, FL--] Cows bellow, a limpkin screams and distant lightning intermittently illuminates the nighttime sky as captain Bobby Stafford idles his aluminum skiff north on the Kissimmee River. Oblivious to the eerie atmosphere, Stafford and passengers Roger McCulloch and Butch Butler eagerly scan the tannic surface with binoculars and headlamps trying to catch a pair of ruby-red lights in their sights.
Sweeping the river ahead, bank to bank, Stafford suddenly spots what they're looking for.
"There's a big one!" he whispers excitedly to his companions. "My God, he's a stud. He's coming out of that creek we were in."
The alligator's red eyes, captured in the beam, are spaced a good distance apart not unlike the running lights on a small boat -- indicating he's probably ten feet or better.
This is just what McCulloch, a highway construction foreman from Ohio, has travelled so far to capture. An accomplished hunter, McCulloch has bagged literally dozens of gators with Stafford as his guide over the past ten years or so during Florida's annual statewide public gator hunt that runs from Aug. 15 through Nov. 1. McCulloch has mounted several of these trophies, but his supply of gator meat has run out. Scoring this target will fill his freezer.
Then Stafford says something that, to the uninitiated, might sound really weird.
"Maybe we ought to just drop a chicken," he says to the other men, who nod in agreement as if this is the most normal conversation in the world to be having on a desolate stretch of river in the middle of the night.
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Unlike the depictions of gator hunting on the popular "Swamp People" television show, hunters chosen by lottery for Florida's annual reptile wrangle are not allowed to shoot gators with guns or snag them in the throat with baited treble hooks. Only certain approved methods are permitted to harvest the quota of two gators per person. One of them involves fishing with chickens, minus a hook.
Stafford retrieves a whole, raw, store-bought chicken from a five-gallon bucket with a length of coated cable attached to it. He fastens the end of the cable to a snap swivel tied to 200-pound-test braided line on his stout conventional fishing outfit. Inside the chicken, he has sewn a wooden dowel-- perfectly legal--that will hold the gator's jaws open if and when it devours the bait.
Stafford drops the chicken/bait in the water, puts the fishing reel in free-spool and motors slowly upriver until the boat is about 100 yards from the floating bait. He directs McCulloch to drop anchor and then shuts off the outboard.
"You just have to have patience and let 'em come to you," Stafford says.
The men wait and wait. Nothing happens. Finally, Stafford points the headlamp at the bait and spots the 'stud' gator far past it downriver. No other targets can be seen lurking nearby.
Stafford reels in the bait and the group decides to go looking for more prospects. They light up a small one in the middle of the river that freezes in the beam, but they agree to pass it up. Not long afterward, they spot a five-footer lurking in some reeds on the bank that has someone else's cable attached to it. They keep looking.
Several other small boats pass by during the night believed to be those of fellow hunters. No whoops and hollers of victory are heard, and only a few gators appear in their sights.
"Too many small ones. Too much boat traffic for this stretch of river," Stafford complains. Reluctantly, he turns the skiff toward the boat ramp, done for the night. He and McCulloch and Butler make plans to resume the hunt around 5:30 in the morning.
"If we can get a morning where there's not a lot of people, then we'll get it done," he declares. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/hunting-gators-in-the-heart-of-florida/){kind=link}
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