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—ALBERT COPA r Miami Herald Staff
Fisher Island is 200 Acres of Primitive Wildness
. . . it is named for pioneer developer Carl Fisher
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Jungle-Like Isle Lies
MAR i 1975 . •
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Herald Staff Writer the acute awareness of all
With its jungle-like un- that sea and sky, that you
dergrowth and its thou- find in a place like Bimini.
sands of coconuts, with the — i.: In fact, most of the is-
sea stretching flat and end- land's 200 acres could be,
less to the east and withfor all their primitive wild-
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the hushed sigh of the ness, part of s o m e South
wind, this island could be Seas tropical paradise.
hidden away at the end of William Vanderbilt built
the world. a fabulous estate here, back
In fact, it's merely the EXPLORING w h e n millionaires were
south end of Miami Beach, more prone to such extra-
severed from the Test of the MIAMI vagances. The big mansion
big sandbar since 1905 by and its 10 outbuildings
the Miami ship channel. Beach, and just across the were of vaguely Moorish
Although Fisher Island is Bay from Miami, it has the architecture, with tile roofs
less than half a mile from ambiance of another world. and gray stucco walls, and
the bustling metropolitan -
marketplaces of South THERE IS the same Turn to Pa4 4B Col. 1
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