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...Bahamian sun slides into the aquamarine sea as the last passengers of the cruise ship Nordic Empress return from a hard day of sunbathing, shell hunting and rum drinking on Coco Cay's white sand beach. "Bring me another Bahama Mama," yells Danny Rivero, 23, from amid 102 degrees hot-tub bubbles high up on the ship's sun deck. Fellow passenger Renato Deoliveira, 19, obediently passes along a lethal concoction of 151-proof Myers's rum, apricot brandy, coconut rum and fruit punch, while Ted and Kay LaTour, a Milwaukee couple in their 60s, laugh indulgently and sink lower...
Even more startling was Lehder's claim that in 1982, two U.S. officials offered him a "green light" to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., provided that he let them use Norman Cay, a Bahamian island he owned, to move guns to the contras. U.S. sources deny that such an offer was made but confirm that Lehder approached an American consular official and an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and tried to sell them the island for use as a drug-interdiction post...
...World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made landfall. Candidates for this honor include San Salvador, Grand Turk, East Caicos, Semana Cay, Conception Island and half a dozen others. In these, as in a myriad other matters, we still don't know enough about Columbus and never will...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
...flats between Ambergris Cay and the mainland of Belize are one of the wonders of the fishing world. They extend for miles: a limestone plain covered by a blue-green, seemingly endless mirror of gin-clear salt water, traversed by bluer channels and punctuated by small mangrove islands. This is the home of Megalops atlanticus, the tarpon...