Dolphin House Museum

Ashley Saunders, a Bimini historian and poet, began building the Dolphin House in 1993 and has been adding to it ever since, using conch shells, broken tiles, bottles, driftwood, fishing floats and material salvaged from wrecks and dumps. Every surface is mosaic, dolphins recur throughout, and the building has grown floor by floor. He gives the tours himself and tells the island's history along with the house's. It is one of the few genuinely singular things in the Bahamas.

What you actually see

• The mosaic surfaces - shell, tile, glass and salvage covering walls inside and out.
• The dolphin motif - the recurring figure the house is named for.
• The upper floors - added over decades, each in its own materials.
• The tour - given by the builder, covering Bimini history alongside the house.

When to go

November to April is the dry season and the peak. Tours depend on Saunders being at home, which he usually is. The house is in Alice Town and easily walked to.

Honest expectations

This is one man's ongoing project and access depends on him being available and well. A donation is the price of entry and is how the building continues. It is small and an hour covers it.

Nearby

Alice Town is around it, and the SS Sapona lies in the shallows south of Bimini.