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planning to build several new
multi-million dollar hotels. Our
travel business has been increas-
ing steadily since the Caribe Hill
ton opended and now we are get
ting additional thousands of visi-
tors who formerly went to Cuba"
Charles E. Christianson of the
Bermuda Government Aquarium
who attended the Game Fish Con-
ference said that the tourist busi-
ness in Bermuda has "been the
best ever" since Castro's Cuba has
become unpopular with American
vacationists as result of the Revo-
luton.
Nassau interests know how to
treat their vacationing visitors.
Located on New Providence Island
air travellers arrive first at Wind
sor Field, an international airport
where shiny faced black Bahami-
ans in white jackets serve you
with native punch-compliments
of Seagram-M Myers, as you await
your turn through Customs. More
black Bahamans speaking Eng
lish more perfect than their pas
sengers take you the 10 miles to
town and your hotel for three
American dollars-plus the usual
trip. If you arrive at the hotel at
supper time in any of the hotels
one hears the strains of Calypso
music, that becomes monotonous
after awhile. The Bayside hotels
have dining and dancing terraces
surrounding swimming pools. The
bay, beach and main street are
lined with palm trees.
Crossing the streets, just as
riding the taxi cabs causes bit
of confusion in the mind of
Americans. All traffic is on the
left side of the streets and roads
like in England. Carriage rides
are featured, but there are so
many automobiles, both American
and foreign makes on the streets,
that few horse drawn vehicles are
seen except in waiting lines at the
hotels.
The islands are east of the Gulf
Stream. AS matter of fact Cape
Hatteras is much nearer the
western edge of the Gulf Stream
than Nassau is to the eastern
edge. And Cape Hatteras, Incl
dentally, is actually farther east
than Nassau. Check the longitude
on your maps and you will find
this is true.
They say every month is a
fishing month in the Bahamas.
While the hub of the sportsfish-
ing is Nassau the most news
worthy catches are made at Cat
Cay, Bimini and other islands of
the group. Bay Street is the shop
ping district and is noted for
shops where articles from all over
the world may be purchased at
prices lower than the same arti-
cles would cost in America. Of un-
usual interest to tourists is the
native straw markets, where ma
tives may be seen making the
hats, pocketbooks and other arti-
cles.
i There is a catch in the business
of buying things. You cannot
leave the island with goods pur-
chased unless you have been
there 4S hours. Returning U. S.
residents can bring out $4,000
worth of purchases after 4S hours
and $5OO.OO worth after a resi-
dence of IL days on the island.
That is-they can bring pur-
chases totaling 5000 or $500 duty
free after AZ hours or IL days.
i Like Roanoke and Hatteras Is
lands in North Carolina, New
Providence and other islands of
the Bahamas are loaded with his
tory. Christopher Columbus first
landed on San Salvador, one of
the Bahama Islands, in 1892. 1t
was 90 years later that Sir Wal
ter Raleigh's explorers first dis
covered Roanoke Island.
I Nassau has a statue of Colum-
bus in front of it's Government
House and statue of Queen Vic
toria in front of the Postoffice.
Roanoke Island does not have a
statue of Sir Walter Raleigh, the
man responsible for its discovery,
but in the Elizabethan Garden
near Manteo there is statue of
Virginia Dare, first child of Eng
lish parentage born in the. New
World.
From 1880 to 1718 swashbuck-
ling pirates, Blackboard, Horni-