Season 2 - Bahamas: Bimini

Florida to Bimini

After spending a month waiting on a weather window, organizing Covid tests, and taking care of a few other official paperwork items, we left Fort Pierce, FL in late February 2021. As far as weather goes, it was a relatively uneventful trip to Bimini. Knowing how intense the Gulf stream can get, we were pleased to see it looking like glass even though we had to motor across. We even caught a lovely Cobia on the way, which we were extremely stoked about!

Browns Marina

Arriving into Bimini is something we will never forget. We had never seen water this blue and clear before, and this is compared to Hawaii and multiple Caribbean islands. The water is truly something special here. We stayed a little over three weeks at Brown’s Marina, which ended being an awesome stay. We were walking distance ( or golf cart distance) to everything on the island, the showers were clean, and there was a lovely BBQ area for tenants to relax and grill up the days catch of lobster.

Daily Life in Bimini

We spent our days going snorkeling at the beach, eating lots of conch salad, hanging out with the other cruisers from the marina, and trying to catch lobster for the first time which we were not very good at. This ended up not being a problem because the locals selling lobster will find you….trust me they will find you:). Plus we have many years ahead of us to perfect our lobstering skills.

Goodbye Bimini

Overall, Bimini was pretty incredible, even though I broke my foot jumping from the boat to the dock. Fun Fact about me: I’m known for being very accident prone! After we got our feel for this small but beautiful island, we were excited to see more of what the Bahamas was all about. So, we jumped on the first weather window that came about and set sail for the Berry Islands.