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Small Hope Bay Lodge
The Small Hope Bay Lodge in Andros Island, Bahamas is not your typical Bahamas hotel. Opened in 1960, it was the first dive-dedicated resort in the Bahamas, and for the past 46 years it has remained under the ownership of the same family, ensuring a legacy of top-quality service and attention to customer satisfaction.The Andros Barrier Reef is the third longest and one of the most unexplored reef systems in the world, and no one knows it better than Small Hope Bay Lodge. With over 60 dive sites in its dive schedule, the staff is able to tailor an experience to your personal desires and needs. Free lessons are even offered for beginners.
For snorkelers, Small Hope offers daily boat trips to the reef, visiting different sites each day at depths ranging from 10-20 feet.
Former News-Tribune fishing columnist dies
PALM COAST -- Frank Bolin, 52, a former area resident, charter captain and longtime fishing columnist for The Flagler-Palm Coast News-Tribune, died Monday at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter following a nine-month battle with cancer.Bolin was born in Jacksonville, grew up in Northeast Florida and wrote a fishing column for The News-Tribune throughout the 1980s and '90s.
Carl Laundrie, Flagler County spokesman and former bureau chief for The News-Tribune, remembered Bolin as an excellent fishing reporter.
"He knew Flagler County forwards and backwards," Laundrie said. "He was a good writer and active in all aspects of sports fishing."
After leaving the area, Bolin joined Florida Sportsman magazine in Stuart as an associate editor in 2000.
"Frank's talents showed at every turn in his many articles, photography and editing," said Karl Wickstrom, founder of Florida Sportsman magazine.
Chamber combats crime
Ways to prevent and overcome crime will be outlined in the second annual crime prevention seminar that officials emphasize would be very beneficial to business owners and the general public.On November 23, members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF), Bahamas Chamber of Commerce (BCC) and Crime Stoppers will host the yearly seminar to enlighten the public on ways to protect themselves and prevent crime. Chair of the Crime Prevention Committee at the BCC, Branville McCartney, said it was expected that the conference would have a really good turnout, as last year had a considerable one.
"We are looking forward to it being a successful, educational and well-attended seminar," said Mr. McCartney. "We are entering into the Christmas season and the trend is that crime increases during this time and we would like at the end of the day to see some reduction in it and this is one way of trying to deal with the reduction.
COB making waves through basketball
Although cricket was termed the national sport of the country, basketball will be the vehicle in which the College/University of The Bahamas (COB) plans to drive its athletic programs to a higher level. The school recently sent its men and women's basketball teams to the United States (US) where they competed in South Florida and New York, for the first time in COB's history, in actual college basketball games. "What we're in the process of doing - Greg Harshaw and myself - we are establishing 'The Bahamas Inter-collegiate/Tertiary Basketball League', which is comprised of BTVI, Bahamas Baptist College, Galilee College, COB and COB in Grand Bahama. We're trying to start our own tertiary/college league, from the Bahamian/Bahamas perspective, and that will be our league, starting in January for three months," said COB Student Affairs Director, and men's basketball Head Coach Sean Bastian.