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