Fodor's Bahamas by Fodor's Travel Guides

Author:Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fodor's Travel
Published: 2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

CENTRAL ANDROS

Those arriving in Central Andros by Bahamas Ferries from Nassau will arrive in the village of Fresh Creek; those arriving by plane will arrive in neighboring Andros Town (the petite transportation and governmental hub). Both Fresh Creek and Andros Town, joined by a small bridge over the creek, are found midisland, on the east coast of North and Central Andros.

Heading north from Andros Town and Fresh Creek, Central Andros extends as far north as Stafford Creek, near Kamalame Cay, where the land officially becomes North Andros (though it’s debated exactly where Central ends). As you head south from Andros Town airport, scrub pine forests and brush give way to mangroves and hardwood coppice. Long beaches scallop the eastern shoreline and the sole road, Queen’s Highway, will bring you to the bonefishing villages of Cargill Creek and Behring Point. Here, along the bonefish sweet spot of Northern Bight, you’ll find nice homes with flowering gardens, palm trees, and sea grapes that overlook the ocean or the wide estuary.

Central Andros accounts for 60% of Andros’s entire hotel inventory. Those expecting the glitz and glamour of the Bahamas’ megaresorts and more touristy islands should look elsewhere. Here the glamour is the romantic, natural type with open vistas of the beaches, tidal estuaries, pine forests, and distant barrier reef. However rustic it may seem, you’ll find pockets of extraordinary excellence and success, notably the award-winning, luxurious private island resort Kamalame Cay, as well as the more homey, family-friendly, all-inclusive Small Hope Bay Lodge, and private villa KettleStone. This part of Andros has many simpler home rentals and bonefishing lodges with lodging, dining, and fishing packages. All lodging types attract many repeat visitors who come year after year (or a couple times every year) to savor Andros’s beautiful beaches, reefs, and world-class diving and fishing.

Central Andros’s famed and remote West Side is a national park that teems with mangrove estuaries, rich with marine life, including conch, lobster, bonefish barracuda, and small sharks. However, this uninhabited region is accessible only by private boat. Central Andros has several national parks, two marine parks offshore, Blue Hole National Park north of Fresh Creek and a Crab Reserve south of it.

GETTING HERE AND AROUND

Fly into Andros Town airport (ASD) with LeAir from Nassau, with Watermakers Air from Fort Lauderdale Executive (FXE) or Tropic Ocean Airways from Miami’s Seaplane base at Watson Island or Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL). Randolph Holdings and Glen Air fly here regularly, even a couple times a day. Alternatively, take the three-hour Sealink ferry with Bahamas Ferries from Nassau to Fresh Creek. Taxis meet airplanes and ferries. The fare from the airport to Fresh Creek is $15; to Cargill Creek area, some 20 miles south of the airport, it costs about $40.

A number of car-rental operators are available (rentals start at $70 a day), but if you’re staying in the Cargill Creek area, you’ll probably be doing most of your traveling by boat. Many lodges will pick you up at the airport. In Andros

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