Seascape  House 
Hopetown, Elbow Cay Island, Abaco, Bahamas

Very Useful Information
Air Service  Ferry Schedule  Boat Rentals 
Golf Cart Rental   SCUBA   Fishing Guides   Weather    Sea Conditions
Car Rentals     Cell Phone Coverage  Sailboat Charters
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Air Service

I have used a ticketing service that have the best round trip prices I can find using hubs in Cleveland and Charlotte , have a look Cheap Tickets Marsh Barbour's airport designation is MHH
For connections out of Florida airports listed below you may want to use:
West Palm: USAir Bahamas Air
Orlando : USAir     Vintage
Fort Lauderdale:
 Gulf Stream Airlines  Island Express
Miami:   Gulf Stream Airlines  
Daytona & Melbourne:   Vintage

 

There are also several charter services that operate from the Bahamas. Below is a list of some you may want to consider:

Cherokee Air is operated out of Palm Beach by a friend of mine Faren Sawyer who has been flying the Bahamas for most of his life. He is a local resident of Marsh Harbour and can most likely tailor a flight to suite your needs.
 
Cherokee Air Ltd. (242) 367-3450, 367-2089
Abaco Air Ltd. (242) 367-2095
Island Express (242) 367-3597
Zig Zag Airways (242) 367-2889

Ferry Schedule
You can take either the ferry to Hope Town or White sound but preferably to White Sound. This page  will give you the times  Abaco Ferry Service

Boat Rentals:

Sea Horse Marine
Rainbow Rentals

Island Marine: Phone: (242) 366-0282   or  Email
Rich's Rentals, Marsh Harbour. Located at Pelican Shores Phone: 242-367-2742.
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Golf Cart Rentals on Elbow: 
       Adjacent to the grocery run by my caretaker is T & N Cart Rentals. Give Wanda
        Sweeting a call  at
242-366-0069 to have your cart waiting for you when you arrive.
        If Wanda is all booked up give
Jr Mernard a call at Jr's Cart Rentals 242-366-0361.

Cell Phone Coverage:
        Seascape's location, with in line of sight of Marsh Harbour is an excellent location to
         receive four full bars on your cell phone. My AT&T  provider charges about $2 a minute,
         pricey but dependable. Your text messages are only fifty cents.

Sailboat Charters:

        For sail boat charters or just for a day sail contact Capitan Mark at  www.cruiseabaco.com He
        will pick you at a dock, just a short walk from Seascape. Capitan Mark can also instruct you in
        sailing.

Car Rentals: (in Marsh Harbour)

Sea Star Car Rentals  for golf excursions to Treasure Cay or exploration of Great Abaco

Weather Conditions:

Green Turtle is a reporting station about 25 miles north of Seascape. This station has current conditions, forecasts and past weather data.
Barometer Bob's Web site has local weather information and hosts a weather report at 8:30 each morning on the VHF radio located at Seascape

Sea Conditions:

This site has an inferred image of the water temperature in the Caribbean and east coast of the United States. A conversion table will be needed if  Celsius temperatures don't mean much to you.
This site has a satellite image of cloud cover and active storms.|
Just for fun a satellite picture of the island from space http://www.motuiti.com/AbacoSatelliteView.html

SCUBA Diving:

One of the SCUBA diving operations in the area is Dive Abaco. It is a small operation located in Marsh Harbour. They offer a very relaxed aquasphere of relatively shallow diving on the world's third largest barrier reef., featuring mountainous coral formations riddled with tunnels and caverns. Magnificent corals rising to the the ocean's surface provide spectacular snorkeling for the non-diver. For reservations and more info call 800-247-5338. You can also contact them by E-mail: captain@internetfl.com .  Or you could use Froggies a wonderful operation right in Hope Town for your diving experience.

Fishing Guides:

This is a list of the local fisherman and the type of fishing they specialize in. They can be reached on the VHF radio at Seascape under the call names listed for each one:
For reef fishing there is Will Key and his call is "Fox Chase"
For deep sea fishing try Robert Lowe  "Sea Gull" or Truman Majors "Lucky Strike"
For bone fishing use Mateland Lowe and his call is "Wild Pidgin"

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