Bimini; Mystery Island - All that Lies Above Atlantis…
I love Bimini for many of its recognizable and blatant beauty secrets including the ever-refreshing and intoxicating turquoise blue waters brilliantly placed alongside extensive soothing white sandy beaches. However, what I find most admirable and consuming about this island, is the natural phenomenon and unsolved mysteries encompassed within its small stretch of land we reference as Bimini Island.
Bimini’s beauty and uncensored peaceful core holds the true underlying secrets of the island’s mystery and sheer allure. Perhaps this land holds the most pertinent sacred secrets of all time. There are many fantastic facts this beautiful paradise holds within its small nooks and crannies as it sit so serenely along the tip of the Bermuda triangle, located only 40 miles into the ocean off Florida’s gold coast.
Perhaps Bimini's perch actually holds the key that unlocks all of the most fascinating, unexplainable and memorizing sea star secrets of The Lost Continent of Atlantis? Or the explanation to the cause and implications denounced as Bermuda Triangle. Bimini may just be the tip of the vortex of the universe. In my opinion it doesn’t just host the Fountain of Youth, it is the source to my fountain of youth!
It holds a strange exuberance that enlightens my world when I am immersed in the island’s beauty and grand scales of mystery… all that is… my Bimini…
I stepped on this land and was immediately taken! A quick signature and I was off island bound on a golf cart. Onward I directed my partner in crime as we made our jaunt to the end of the island… looking out over the waters of Paradise Point, I could only spy a few fins perking up out of the ocean waves… “Out there lies the road to Atlantis,” I whispered to myself… I relished in the shallow waters and enjoyed a moment of serene island relaxation. A washed up boat lie alongside the very far north end of the island. I wondered how it came to land in it’s final resting place… perhaps a hurricane, drug runners or the unfathomed plight of Devil’s Triangle… the lonely boat remains a mystery to me…
Venturing into town, I grab a bite at the local favorite eatery… fried lobster and Kaliks to please the pallet… perfectly! “All aboard,” I jumped at the quick invitation to snorkel the Road to Bimini… Kaliks in hand… on my way I went…
The Lost City of Atlantis is believed concealed below the shallow waters off of Bimini. Upon my first visit to Bimini, the Bimini Road was a sure “must see!” I dove in uber excited to experience this mystery first hand. Amazing peace filled my soul once down in the depths admiring the strange rock formations. I had to keep reminding myself to go back up to the surface for air. It was magical. I could have followed those rocks forever. Beauty and peace surrounded me and my soul felt like it was at home. A sea star greeted me along the rocks on the ocean floor below me. The sun streamed reflective and brilliant rays in the waters around me cradling me like angels. A most fascinating experience for certain that I can still feel to this day. I have a fossil I scooped from the depths of the rocky road. It is a heart-shaped fossil rock… and one of my most cherished possessions from the island.
I read about Edgar Cayce, the famous prophesier of the 1900's who predicted that evidence of the lost continent of Atlantis would materialize around 1968-1969 in the Bahamas. And how in 1968 a pilot discovered and photographed structures that looked like buildings, blocks, stone circles, walls and roads on the sea bed beneath Bimini island waters… the formation now referenced as Bimini Road and the mystery to the lost continent of Atlantis remains… I must admit after experiencing the road personally; there is more to those rock formations than meets the eye.
This is not the only magnificent discovery within the beautiful island world of Bimini. This island may just be the prescription that beholds the meaning of life and secrets of immortality in the The fountain of Youth. It is believed that the Fountain of Youth is located in the ocean passage between North and South Bimini. There is also the healing hole which draws many to dip in the waters hoping for health and cures. I attempted to find the “actual, authentic fountain of youth" I drove as far as the road would take me… but decided it wasn't worth risking my current life by trampling through a jungle or any possible drug trafficking franchises to discover it… I do want to go back… maybe next time with a guide though, so I can truly find the actual location also reportedly frequented by the greatness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Following my failed attempt of finding the “actual/authentic” Fountain of Youth, I decided to belly up to one of Hemingway’s past dwellings. I enjoyed my very own independently guided tour hosted by myself, of The Compleat Angler. I photographed all of the rooms prior to it’s demise and ill fated fire that took the building and all the beautiful artifacts alongside. I truly enjoyed my tour of this small, wonderfully quaint hotel that was a cultural landmark and favorite haunt of American writer Ernest Hemingway on Bimini. It burnt to the ground in 2006 taking with it the owner and all of the Hemingway artifacts, photos and memorabilia – very, very, sad! – a really special place to have been blessed to visit.
Next stop on the island, the beaches... the bars... sporting my bikini... of course ;) I drank it all in... this amazing place called Bimini Island. There are so many fun places to visit and locals to chat with on this island. I adore every one of the amazing features that reside on such a small piece of world we call Bimini… I also love that this beautiful island is still unstirred by mega tourists…
I believe that perhaps the greatest mystery I’ve yet to solve and unlock about Bimini is more personal… Bimini somehow holds the key to my inner heart… opening the door to complete peace, love and happiness… Caribbean Living Style! There is so much about Bimini to love…
Love wins.
J. Marshon
