Norm, Karen & Alex Byers: Reef Diver

A guide to a few of our friends, favorite scuba or snorkeling and bone fishing adventures on Andros and elsewhere in the Bahamas.


Map of Bahamas    Map of Andros

Site Updated 5/26/2007            Be sure to scroll down the page to find out about our friends!

The Bahamas. The beaches are blinding white, the ocean turquoise, and the reef system is equaled by only a few places in the world - and its all just a few minutes from the U.S.A. A curious grouper: Nassau You can Hammock on the beach: Paradise sport with an oafish grouper, marvel at a glittering shower of tropical fish, or intentionally dive among a horde of hungry sharks. Better still, experience the joy of taking your children snorkeling and excite them with the shy squid, octopus, lobster, and tropical fish that abound in the shallows - they'll talk to friends about it for years.
Andros Island. Here the beaches are empty, there's almost no tourism, and the 3rd longest barrier reef in the world stretches over the 120 mile length of the island at a swimming distance from the beach. At low tide the exposed tips of its elkhorn coral form a life infested barrier between the shallow patch reef area inside, and the deeper magnificent coral formations and walls on the seaward side. Snorkel on the reef, kayak through the ocean's nursery - the mangroves - or up one of the many tidal streams. Visit the mysterious and famous ocean and inland Blue Holes of Andros with their flooded caves that sometimes reach for miles. On the remote, western side of Andros, flocks of flamingos, myriad migrating birds, and large Andros Rock iguana rarely, if ever, see humans.

Have fun watching the abundant small gecko lizards change color before your eyes. See if your're brave enough to grab an 8 inch land crab from the rock wall by your lodging. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to see a small boa-constrictor. Perhaps you'll find a 5foot iguana on a remote beach. Andros nature can provide many simple pleasures both in the ocean and on land.

The bonefishing on Andros is spectacular and attracts the most select fishermen from around the world. Yet these reefs and the island called the "Sleeping Giant" are truely one of those "undiscovered" places. You may call it your greatest discovery. The communities of people here are rarely more than a few hundred in size and are spread over the largest land mass in the Bahamas. If you don't like crowds or noisy cities, don't demand modern entertainment, sophisticated living or fancy dining, and love to view a nighttime sky unpolluted by city lights, then you must try Andros. The people are friendly, the streets are safe. For us, when we're not there our thoughts and our hearts are.

At this site you'll see information on some of our diving and fishing friends in the Bahamas. From peaceful family hideaway olidays to heart testing shark diving escapades, we think you'll find your paradise in the Bahamas.

Comments? Email to: Norm @ ByersFamily.com  (or Karen @  or Alex @ )

Click on Norm, Karen, and Alex's Andros Info sites below to find out more!

SITESITE DESCRIPTION
  • Norm & Karen & Alex Byers
  • Andros photos for our friends to see...
  • Things to Do on Andros
  • Things for our friends to do on Andros (a bit outdated...sorry)
  • Andros Phone List
  • Useful phone #'s for our friends visiting Nichols Town (out of date...)
  • "Andros Info"
  • More about Andros at ForFar's Web Site

    Andros Bonefishing/Lodging sites (other sites follow)

    SITESITE DESCRIPTION
  • North Andros Flyfishing
  • Phillip Rolle's North Andros Flyfishing - fish bonefish, tarpon, permit and more
  • Knoll's Landing
  • North Andros relaxation and bonefishing hideaway at Pleasant Harbor. Bonefish almost at your front door!
  • Stafford Creek Lodge
  • Prescott  Smith's bonefish & tarpon lodge right on Stafford Creek
  • Bahama Coconut Farm
  • Jim Halron's new cottages on the beach in Nicholstown.
  • Small Hope Bay Lodge
  • Andros Island (wonderful quiet family diving getaway, w/dolphin trips & more)
  • Coconut Grove Resort & Fishing Lodge
  • Located on the beautiful endless beach at Staniard Creek
  • Kamalame Cove
  • Have a luxurious private island and villas all to yourself!
  • Tiamo
  • One of the newest and most secluded getaway on Andros! Petagay and Mike Hartman are your marvelous hosts
  • Emerald Palms
  • Now managed by Tiamo Resorts. Absolutely gorgeous one and two cottages and rooms on South Andros.  A must see.
  • Andros Diving
  • Scuba diving on South Andros - dolphin, spectacular underwater canyon, endless empty beaches
  • SeaScape Inn
  • Remote beach front cottages on Mangrove Cay, South Andros
  • Pleasant Dreams Beach House
  • The Hammond's house on the beach at Pleasant Harbor
  • Andros Lighthouse Yacht Club & Marina
  • Marina and Hotel at the mouth of Fresh Creek
  • Flamingo Cay
  • Luxury flyfishing on the west side of Andros - accessible only by floatplane
  • Cape Cod Outdoors
  • Good info and pics about Andros bonefishing

    Other Caribbean bonefishing and diving friends.
    SITESITE DESCRIPTION
  • Scuba Daddy's de Mexico SandWood Villas
  • Bonefish or dive the Belize Reefs from Xcalak Mexico!
  • The Harbour Club Villas & Marina
  • Six lovely one bedroom villas on Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Bonefishing and diving just feet away!
  • Atlas - Photo Site
  • Find pictures from islands all over! GREAT SITE!
    Click on the Andros sites below to find out more!

    SITESITE DESCRIPTION
  • International Field Studies ForFar Field Station
  • Available for school groups. Located in Stafford Creek (High School/College teachers - take your class here!)

    Other Bahamas friends.
    SITESITE DESCRIPTION
  • Bimini Undersea Adventures
  • Dive with Bill and Nowdla Keefe(great hosts, great place)
  • Walkers Cay Undersea Adventures
  • (swim with hundreds of sharks...)
  • Xanadu Undersea Adventures
  • Grand Bahama
  • Neal Watson's Undersea Adventures
  • (say Hi to Neal for me)


    Kermit & Kalik Reef Diver is provided by Norm and Karen Byers. WE ARE NOT A TRAVEL AGENCY but if you desire, we can assist you with information about traveling to Andros so feel free to contact us. We have spent time living on Andros, still maintain a home there, and believe you will love it as we do. With this site, we're just trying give some friends some (perhaps additional) Internet exposure. For them its free for as long as we can afford this hobby !

    Look here to find friends of ours providing off the beaten path bonefishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, or just quiet family beach vacationing on the empty beaches of Andros Island as well as elsewhere in the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

    Comments? Send Email to: Norm @ ByersFamily.com  (or Karen @, or Alex @ ...)