We currently offer these exciting Adventures all over Grand Bahama.

This map illustrates the courses of our tours and highlights the stops along the way, click on any of the stops to view a photo gallery of the location.

West End Bike & Snorkel Adventure This adventure is 6 hours, from pick up to drop off at your place of lodging The folding bikes we use for our tours.Come experience the rich culture and history of west Grand Bahama on our West End Bike & Snorkel Adventure. From the beginning of your magical adventure, your certified guide will convey the rich history of our island. Nothing compares to this exclusive, personalized introduction to how it all began: from the formation of its archipelago, to Asiatic settlement, to European and African influences. You will be captivated as you learn firsthand about Grand Bahama Island's wealth of natural life and unique ecosystems. At designated stops along the way to West End, you will enjoy breathtaking views as you reflect on days of yore, including stories of Eight Mile Rock, the island's oldest settlement and a former capital. Crystal Beach.Once at West End, your beautiful six mile bike adventure takes you through the northern side of West End and its coastal town, then the return ride continues inland along a back street with homes, churches and a school connected to the main road with side streets approximately five hundred feet from the ocean. Your leisurely paced bike ride has multiple stops and narrations introducing this quaint fishing village with interesting ties of the past, taking approximately two hours including lunch at a local restaurant in West End. Snorkeling off Crystal Beach. At the conclusion of your bike ride, our transportation will take you to the next location of the day, which is one of Grand Bahama Island's most picturesque, white powdery beaches called Crystal Beach. Here you will enjoy lunch and relax. Your tour continues right here in the turquoise ocean, where an abundant treasure of marine life awaits you by way of snorkeling for the next hour and a half. If you decide not to snorkel, simply relax on the beautiful beach, or comb it for shells. The West End Bike and Snorkel Tour, an experience like no other... it is better in the Bahamas, but BEST in the West! Bring yourself $115 Bring a friend $99 each Bring more friends $89 each Contact us to reserve your spot.

Lucayan National Park Cavern Dive & Nature Walk Adventure This adventure is 6 hours, from pick up to drop off at your place of lodging Spiral staircase leading down from the cave entrance. Come and experience one of Grand Bahama's truly wonderful and exciting tours. Your destination is the Lucayan National Park. This 42 acre park has six ecosystems in very close proximity and two caves. Your adventure begins when your certified guide conveys the rich history of our country during the drive to Lucayan National Park. Ben's Cave. Upon arrival, your guide will introduce you to your Grand Bahama dive site. It is a cave known as Ben's Cave, which extends for more than 5 miles underwater. You will experience an amazing adventure that takes you back in time. Through this quiet body of water, you will encounter stalactites, stalagmites, a halocline, fossilized conch shells, bivalves and the list continues. Your dive of approximately an hour, will leave you begging for more. At the conclusion of this Freeport, Bahamas dive, your adventure continues through six different ecosystems. Here you will learn how sand storms in Africa play a role in the Bahamas' sediment which gives us the vegetation we have today. Your guide will discuss each ecosystem, including medicinal properties of trees, local fauna, as well the history of the first settlers from whom the park got its name, the Lucayans. Gold Rock Beach.Your Grand Bahama hike concludes at the last of the six zones, a beautiful coast known as Gold Rock Beach. Here you will have time to take in this beautiful location, swim if you like. Your adventure continues to the East end, where you have a chance to visit a local settlement called High Rock, eat at a local restaurant, and enjoy another beautiful beach. $159 The Adventure (6 hours) $129 Dive only (3 hours) Maximum of 4 persons per tour Contact us to reserve your spot

Dover Sound Kayak Adventure This adventure is 5 hours, from pickup to drop off at your place of lodging Reddish Egret.Kayak through one of the largest creek systems in Freeport, Grand Bahama known as Dover Sound. Dover Sound, designed as a park during the development of the private city of Freeport on the Island of Grand Bahama, over looks miles of evergreen forest with prop roots known as Red Mangroves. How to paddle a kayak.Your adventure begins with a short drive from your place of lodging. Once at the launch site your certified kayak guide instructs you on kayak basics, then you slip into a life jacket, hop into a tandem kayak with paddle in hand, and begin an adventure of leisure in the presence of nature. Listen to the sounds of slow flowing waters that have shaped these channels for thousands of years while kayaking on Grand Bahama, creating a natural habitat of beauty for both birds and fish. With an open canopy giving view to the vastness your entire nature experience, you may see the hosts of this amazing world like Reddish Egrets, Double- crescent Cormorants, Yellow-crown Night Herons, Clapper Rails and Yellow Warblers. Within the shallow waters, Crabs, Needle-nose Gars, Mojarras, Checkered Puffer Fish, Snappers and Sponges are but just some of our aquatic hosts. Josh and his guide.Dover Sound is a tidal creek, so pray you see it at low tide - in all its glory. At that time, your feathered hosts, White Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Green Herons and Willets, move across amazing mudflats searching small puddles of water for prey. While in the canvas of the Bahamian sky movement of Swallows, Turkey Vultures, Osprey and Antillean Night Hawks show their grace. The beach at Banana Bay.Your guide will lead you, while kayaking in Freeport, Bahamas, through a beautiful maze of sand banks dressed in a forest of Red Mangrove trees within an intricacy of waterways until you reach the northern coast of Grand Bahama Island. Once there, you will enjoy an open water kayak experience to yet again another destination. Here you will have an introduction to this wonderful ecosystem and continue your peaceful private journey with a stop at a Blue hole as you navigate through different channel ways that leaves you in awe. Lunch after a fun filled day.At the end of your Grand Bahama kayaking, get ready to lounge out on a beautiful white powdery beach called Banana Bay. Here you will enjoy lunch, lounge chairs and hammocks. Enjoy a true outback naturalist adventure of a lifetime - your peaceful getaway on my island, Freeport, Grand Bahama. $89 for adults $45 for kids under 12 Contact us to reserve your spot

Owl's Hole Cavern Dive & Outback Adventure This adventure is 6 hours, from pick up to drop off Caverns at Owl's Hole Enjoy the surrounding nature while exploring the Grand Bahama outback. Adventure off the beaten path among 40' Pine trees and Palm thickets and discover the native wildlife and fauna along the way. Relax while your guide transports you to your unique Grand Bahama diving destination and narrates the story of the Bahamas and the formation of caves all while en route to Owl's Hole. Entrance to Owl's Hole. Owl's Hole, named for the Burrowing Owls that nest there, has a large opening that drops about 25' to a pool of water. The 30-foot diameter opening formed when part of the cave system's ceiling collapsed. The clear water below is more than 60' deep. In its centre, the rocky remains of the ceiling extend from its depth to about 20' from the water's surface. Marine life such as fresh water eels, shrimps and gobies dance around the pyramid of rocks. Your Grand Bahama dive explores their home and ventures through a thermocline and halocline into three caverns that lead away from the main room. The penetrations are short and always within natural light. Beyond this natural light begins the very extensive and dangerous Bahamian cave systems (this is not a cave dive). Divers turned explorers. Bahamianized After this amazing experience, your guide will drive you to the coast for a short hike through Bahamian history. This hike explores one of Grand Bahamas' most interesting stories, starting with the abolishment of slavery and ending with the relocation of a town. You will see and hear about the abandoned stone homes and walls, lost to time. Top off your adventure with lunch on a beautiful sandy beach, where you will have a chance to relax and reflect on this experience of a lifetime. $159.00 The Adventure (6 hours) $129.00 Dive only (3 hours) Maximum of 4 persons per tour Contact us to reserve your spot

Sightseeing Adventures Your Adventure begins with a pickup at your place of lodging and continues to one of these destinations... West End Adventure This adventure is 5 hours, from pick up to drop off Church of St. Mary Magdalen.Enjoy a narrated drive to West End, our Island’s Capital. Grand Bahama Island is divided into 3 sections known as West Grand Bahama, Freeport Grand Bahama and East Grand Bahama. Crystal Beach.During the drive, your tour guide will introduce Freeport, the only private city in the Bahamas, and point out landmarks of its development dating back to 1955. Your drive continues through Freeport and sections of West Grand Bahama prior to your visit to West End. Eight Mile Rock, named after its rocky coast, is the first settlement along the way and the largest settlement in the Bahamas. Your guide will introduce this settlement and discuss its growth, stopping at several points of interest. Here you will find the oldest lighthouse, two Blue Holes, the first mail boat port, the first jailhouse and the oldest church on the Island. Learn how this former capital came into existence in 1812. Your guide will continue to Holmes Rock, founded in 1829, one of the most interesting stops. Visit a cave used by its settlers during storms and see their fresh water source as you walk through one of the six ecosystems found on the island. After a short guided hike, your ride continues to the capital of Grand Bahama called West End. Today it is a quaint fishing village, but its roots were deep into running rum to the United States during Prohibition. Here you will hear this interesting story, stopping at several local points of interest. Lunch will be enjoyed at a favorite local restaurant featuring local cuisine. After lunch, your final destination is Paradise Cove or Crystal Beach, where you will have a chance to swim, lay on the beach or snorkel before the return trip to your resort. East End Adventure This adventure is 5 hours, from pick up to drop off Gold Rock Beach.Your destination is East Grand Bahama by way of Freeport Grand Bahama. During the drive, your guide will introduce some of Freeport’s interesting history, including its lumber days and railway that date back to 1944, to the development of the only private city in the Bahamas. With designated stops along the way, you will visit Tanio Beach, Smith Point, Millionaire Row, Lucayan National Park, Gold Rock Creek and then Bishop’s Place in a settlement call High Rock. High Rock Lighthouse.This information-filled tour takes you on an adventure back through time. Visit the first capital of Grand Bahama, dating prior to 1899. At Lucayan National Park, your guide walks you through the six different ecosystems on a narrated short hike. You will visit two caves whose mystery is below the surface of the still water you see inside them. National Geographic has mapped out over 5 miles of underwater tunnels and caves. Scientists like Dr. Jill Yager, along with her team, discovered the first Remipedia (small crustaceans) in one of the two anchialine (bodies of water with subterranean connection to the ocean) caves in the park. I am one of only four people authorized to take divers into its amazing cavern, call Ben’s Cave. The second Cave is Burial Mound, where human remains discovered in this room were carbon dated to 750AD. At the end of your hike is the best beach found on island. Here you can walk in the surf, lay in the sun or take a swim. Your journey continues to Gold Rock Creek, where your guide will introduce its interesting history. The final stop of the day is High Rock, the highest coastal settlement on the island. We will visit Bishop’s Place, which sits on one of the prettiest beaches in East Grand Bahama. We will enjoy lunch at this wonderful site, where you can choose your meal from their menu. Relax, swim, but soak it all in on your East End Adventure. Tour Grand Bahama the way it was meant to be seen, with Calabash Eco Adventures.

Birding Grand Bahama Half day and full day birding tours Antillean Bull Finch.Grand Bahama Island is the most northern island in the archipelago of the Bahamas, 530 square miles in size, boasts all six different ecosystems found in the Bahamas, and has 18 of its 29 specialty birds not commonly found in North America. Grand Bahama Island divided into three sections; there is West Grand Bahama, Freeport Grand Bahama and East Grand Bahama. Bananaquit.West Grand Bahama is where you will find the Capital of the island called West End. Birding experts favor it as the best location to view rare birds in the fall. It is also the best location to bird in mid to late March. This is a period known as spring migration and West End becomes a trap, hosting migrants from each section of the island before the exodus to breeding grounds back in North America. La Sagra Flycatcher.Freeport Grand Bahama is a private city that started in 1955 and the largest of the three sections of the island; it is approximately 230 square miles in size. There are six ecosystems and each make great destinations to look for birds. The Pine forest being the largest of the six ecosystems is a great place to find Zenaida Doves, Pine Warblers, and Olive Caps, Bahama yellow throats, Brown-headed Nuthatches and Flycatchers like the Loggerhead Kingbird and the Crescent-eyed Pewee. The sandy and rocky coast, Mangrove swashland but add the Golf courses and you have an ideal place to find birds like Key West Quail Doves, Plovers, Sandpipers, Herons, Egrets, Soras, Thick-billed Vireos, Willets, White-Check Pintails, Yellow Warblers and Bahama Swallows. The White-land Coppice, Rocky Coppice and Black-land Coppice is great for birds like Red legged thrush, Humming birds like Bahama Woodstar and Cuban Emerald, wood peckers, Cuckoos, Banana Quit, Western Spindalis and Greater Antillean Bullfinch. Red Legged Thrush.East Grand Bahama dominated with Pine trees, isolated Sandy coasts and creeks has a great variety of bird life. With many side roads and trails to explore you can find birds like Turkey Vultures, American Kestrels, and Black face Grassquits, Vireos, Swallows, and a variety of passerines. Western Spindalas.Interested in birding, then give us a call once on island at 727-1974 or drop an email for advance bookings. We look forward to showing you our avian friends…

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