Dolphin House

Top choice house in The Biminis

Looking like Gaudí's tropical hobby, this astonishing house is the lifelong labor of Bimini historian and poet Ashley Saunders. Born on the site (all the surrounding houses belong to the Bimini Saunders), Ashley was touched after swimming with wild dolphins, and has been building this 'tribute' piece by piece since 1993. Plastered with dolphin mosaics, sea glass, shells, Lucayan artifacts, coconut rum bottles, pickled sausage jars and every conceivable type of flotsam and jetsam, it's absolutely unique and arrestingly beautiful.

Downstairs you'll find a museum filled with salvaged ephemera such as a brass naval cannon from an 18th-century British wreck, photos of Hemingway having his hair cut, copper from a pirate ship and countless other random pieces. There's also a gift shop, where you can get both volumes of Ashley's history of Bimini.

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