The Chickcharnie Hotel is located along Fresh Creek in Andros Town, North Andros, five minutes from the airport. The longest established hotel on the island, the Chickcharnie is named after the spirits of the bush, half human - half bird, from legends of long ago.

Today, the hotel provides clean, affordable rooms in a location central to all of North Andros. Just a minute from convenience stores, craft shops, a beverage and liquor store, and other resturants in the area, local fishing guides leave for the day using the Creek right beside the hotel.

Fresh Creek offers a beautiful view of the surroundings, easy access to the bonefish flats or ocean for sportsmen, and cool breezes in the evening.

The Chickcharnie has a fine restuarant of its own as well as a bar and outside veranda. The rooms are upstairs where the view of Fresh Creek and the surrounding palms and ocean is unhindered.

Rooms are listed with bath, air conditioning and TV for $80 for a double. The staff is friendly and helpful and can assist you with your inquiries about the available Bahamian resources: handicraft shops, entertainment and, of course, tour and fishing guides.

  Fresh Creek / Andros Town is central to that part of Andros Island called North Andros. The airport serving the area is just three miles out of town but within an easy taxi ride from the population center.

Many visitors to the area come for the bonefishing, so please visit our guide's website, but there are other aspects of the Bahamian out-island life that may interest the vacationer.

While our beaches are sometimes hard rock coral, a guide can take you to flats and beaches by boat where you can enjoy miles of open, shallow, warm water snorkeling and swimming all to yourself. There are a few similar places that may be reached by car rental or bicycle on your own, the staff of the Chickcharnie can help in directing you and arranging this.

There is also the barrier reef, just a quarter mile offshore and only about ten feet deep that is the third longest in the world, and beautiful to snorkel.

The creek itself has bonefish, tarpon, jacks, snapper, baracuda, and all manner of small reef fish like sargeant majors and blue runners visible during the day and night.

 Local artisans display the crafts they hand weave from straw into baskets, trays and bowls in shops around town, another carves Cameos from conch shell . Batik, produced locally and known as "Androsia" is made a few minutes walk away on the other side of the Creek where there is a factory store for your convenience.

A view up Fresh Creek on a calm evening.