BLUE HOLE & ROCKLAND PINE FOREST NATIONAL PARK

It was the very first Andros National Park, classified in 2002. Stretching over 160 km2, it is home to the largest concentration of blue holes in the Bahamas. A protected area for fauna and flora, it is home to rare species of fish and shrimp, and contains many fossils and remains of the passage of the Lucayans, the original inhabitants of the archipelago. The park also protects a very vast pine forest growing directly on the rock. While it is complex to precisely quantify the water holes, there are 12 perfectly circular holes, but the two that cannot be missed are Captain Bill's (nearly 140 metres in diameter and 50 metres deep) and Cousteau's, named after Commander Cousteau's discovery in the early 1970s, who established through research here that these water holes were all connected to the ocean. The latter is one of the deepest blue holes on land in the Bahamas, at 110 metres deep. Andros has an exceptional concentration of blue holes, with more than 170 holes recorded at sea and more than 50 on land. The most famous blue hole in the Bahamas remains however the Dean's Blue Hole of Long Island, with a depth of 202 m making it the second deepest in the world and which we advise you to go and photograph as its heart shape is so touching. The circumference of the blue holes in Andros National Park is for its part of an astonishing regularity.