Mars Bay · South Andros · The Bahamas
Fish the Flatsof South Andros.
A specialist island lodge at the southern tip of Andros Island — for anglers who measure the day in tides, and travelers drawn to the quiet edge of The Bahamas.
About the Lodge
A lodge at the end
of the island road
Da Bay Area Bonefish Lodge sits in Mars Bay, a small settlement at the southern tip of South Andros — the largest and least developed island in The Bahamas.
It is a specialist island lodge, kept small in spirit: a place for anglers who measure a day in tides rather than hours, and for travelers who would rather hear wind in the casuarinas than a crowd.
Mornings start early here, and most end with salt on your skin. Between tides there is time to slow down, watch the water change color, and let the island set the pace.
Accommodation
Stay simple,
sleep by the sea
The lodge keeps things uncomplicated: comfortable, unpretentious island accommodation for guests who come for the water — a base to rest, eat, talk fishing, and do it all again at dawn.
There is no booking engine and no package grid. Every stay is arranged directly, one conversation at a time — tell the lodge when you’re thinking of coming and how you like to fish, and you’ll hear back by email.
Far from the crowds
Mars Bay rests at the southern tip of Andros Island — one of the quietest corners of the Out Islands.
Days set by the tide
Mornings begin with the light and the weather, not a schedule. Fishing days shape themselves around the water.
Quiet settlement nights
Nothing after dark but wind in the palms, water on the shore, and more stars than you remembered existed.
Bonefishing
Chasing tails on
some of the finest flats
in The Bahamas
South Andros is bonefish country. From Mars Bay, anglers reach vast, lightly fished banks where the water turns from jade to silver with the tide — and every day on the flats is arranged around conditions, wind, and how you like to fish.
Talk to us about your days on the water
The grey ghost
Bonefish — silver, shy, and astonishingly fast — cruise these shallows in singles, doubles, and shadowing schools.
Hunted by sight
This is fishing of light and patience: poling or wading in knee-deep water, reading pushes, wakes, and tails in the glare.
A living wilderness
Turtle-grass meadows, white-sand banks, and mangrove creeks — a nursery for fish and one of the wildest corners of the West Indies.
South Andros
The wildest island
in The Bahamas
If The Bahamas has a last frontier, it is Andros. Vast, roadless in places, and ringed with flats and reef, the island has always belonged more to wind and water than to the modern world.
Travelers come for the emptiness itself — empty beaches, empty horizon, and a night sky with no competition. Anglers come because all that emptiness happens to be extraordinary fish habitat.
The Sleeping Giant
Andros is the largest island in The Bahamas — and its wildest: a hundred miles of pine forest, creeks, and quiet settlements.
The Andros Barrier Reef
Off the east side runs a fringing reef often cited among the largest on Earth; to the west, the shallows of the Great Bahama Bank.
Blue holes & creeks
Inland, the island is laced with tidal creeks and vertical blue holes — a landscape found almost nowhere else.
Mars Bay, the south end
The lodge's settlement rests at the island's southern tip, facing water that sees few boats and fewer people.
The Flats
Water you read
like weather
Around the island’s south end, miles of white sand and turtle grass are broken only by mangrove creeks and tidal channels. On a rising tide, bonefish push up onto the banks to feed — tails up, flashing silver in the sun.
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White-sand banks
Hard, pale bottom that glows under the sun — water so clear you read shadows, not shapes.
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Turtle-grass meadows
Green pasture for shrimp, crabs, and the bonefish that root them out on a rising tide.
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Mangrove creeks
Tidal arteries threading the shoreline — nursery, shelter, and ambush country all at once.
“Out here the horizon is the only wall, and the loudest sound is wind moving over the grass.”
Gallery
Light, water,
and everything between
Field notes in color — moments from the flats, the creeks, and the settlement, gathered between tides.
Location
Find us in
Mars Bay
South Andros feels a world away — and getting here is part of the story. The island’s south end is quiet Out Island Bahamas at its most authentic.
Where
Mars Bay · South Andros · The Bahamas
A small settlement at the southern tip of Andros Island — the southern end of the Out Islands.
Getting there
Via Nassau
Fly to Nassau (NAS), then connect by air to Congo Town (TZN) on South Andros. The lodge will help you think through the timing.
Write to us
Direct answers
Every question — about travel, the fishing, or the stay — is answered personally by email.
You are looking for
Mars Bay
Southern tip of Andros Island
Contact / Booking
Inquire about
your stay
Tell us when you’re thinking of coming, how many are traveling, and what you hope to do on the water. Every inquiry is answered personally, by email.
Trips here are planned conversationally rather than off a rate card — the lodge will work out the details of your stay and your fishing with you directly.