BIMINI and ISLAND TIME.

Porgy Bay is nice. Drop two hooks Bahama style (fore and aft). Head over to Alice town. You're on Bimini now so when a tourist asks if you know what time it is, just smile and answer, "Yes", and keep walking.
You do not go to Bimini or other places to know what time it is. You go to escape the things of man, including and often especially, time.
Island time is not a time of day measurement. It is a pace defining a lifestyle. When you escape it is not a good practice to take time with you. If you take time along, then have you really escaped? But, what if someone askes to meet you for drinks? Or, you are invited to join a fellow traveler for lunch, or worse supper?
The Kid and this Captain rowed to shore and went looking for Hemingway's footprints. Not where he walked, but where he put up his feet on a bar rail and got into the pace of island time. We were just past the post office and out from the laundry came the invite.
"Join us for drinks later?"
"Are you thirsty now?", The Kid responded. We didn't wait for the answer. That's island time. If you are thirsty now. Drink now. If you are hungry now. Eat now. If you don't want to do anything now. Don't do anything. If you start setting appointments, checking schedules, and synchronizing watches, you have not escaped or gone to other places.
We headed to the End of the World Bar becasue The Compleate Angler was lost to a fire some years back. OK. Hemingway probably stopped in here too, but the Compleate Angler had all the photos and stories. The challenge arose. Have we come to tour, or have we come to be there?
When you escape and visit other places do not bring your tourist with you. The tourist you misses the point of escaping. The tourist does at home things from the at home comfort level in the self-deception that he is on an adventure. If you want this, stay home and watch TV. If you are escaping and your Compleate Angler burns down, you just take it with you into the End of the World Bar. Now, you're escapism is on island time, doing island adventure, and nothing can alter the experience from being a successful escape.
The bottom line. Do not take time, past, present or future with you when go to other places. Just go.
One more Bimini next time.

The Captain and The Kid