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For the past three years, my daughter and I have been going to the Bahamas to scuba dive. On Andros Island we have dived with sharks and searched for buried treasure.

One hundred miles long and forty-five miles wide, Andros, which is only fifteen miles from crowded Nassau, is untamed, wild, and mysterious.   The island is pocked with "blue holes," giant round sink holes formed in porous limestone and filled with brackish water.  These inland blue holes are connected to deep ocean blue holes miles offshore through a series of twisted caverns and tunnels deep under the sea.

To add to the island's mystery, we'd heard some fantastic stories about the island. The pirate Henry Morgan is said to have hidden treasure on Andros. According to local legend, mythical bird-like creatures called Chickcharnies roamed the pine forests of Andros; mermaids came out at midnight, and red sea devils with big horns grabbed unsuspecting scuba divers into the bottomless caves.

Our guide and scuba instructor was a wonderful man called Skeebo, who now makes his living on Andros as a certified Bahamas fly fishing guide.

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