Land of Plenty & Land of Scarcity

Exploring North Bimini (February 21, 2012)

On Tuesday, Feb. 21, we rented an electric golf cart to explore North Bimini—the Land of Plenty and the Land of Scarcity.

Bimini, like most of the Bahamas has some of the best beaches we’ve seen anywhere. This is Paradise Beach and seems to be part of Bimini Bay Resort on the north end of the island. Here John is in his new birthday suit---well, the wetsuit he bought with his birthday $$. As you can see, it was a beautiful day and a beautiful beach (oh, yes, and a handsome snorklerman).

Here is what some of Bimini Bay Resort looks like. You might notice that there are very few people here—the place was a ghost town—albeit, a very upscale one. There were fabulous restaurants, coffee bars, beach bars with multiple swimming pools overlooking the ocean, an exclusive beachwear shop and an expensive jewelry store. Clearly, international investors have dumped tons of money into this project. But since we know nothing about such, we just hope these people are not dependent upon folks like John and me to get a return on their investment. We enjoyed their place and purchased an expensive cup of latte’, a Kalik beer, and a gourmet pizza. We passed up the $700 cotton beach dress, the $2,000 necklace, and assured the nice sales representative that we weren’t interested in buying a Bimini Bay Beach vacation home. The land of plenty?

Going back to our boat in Alice Town, we passed back through the other parts of Bimini—the parts where people seemed to be living. This is Bailey Town, Joe’s Place, and the marine hardware store in Alice Town. The land of scarcity? No, it really might be the land of plenty. Of course, we like it all. It’s all part of the adventure and we love it!