Seaplane from Miami to Dunmore Town

A little over an hour in the air. Dunmore Town lies roughly 223 statute miles from downtown Miami, just over 193 nautical, almost all of it open water.

The exact block time depends on the aircraft and the departure point and it is confirmed with the boarding time before you book. What sets the length of the day is not the flight. It is the two border filings and how long the aircraft waits for you.

Effectively yes and it is worth saying plainly. Dunmore Town is the only settlement on Harbour Island, so people use the two names for the same destination.

We keep a separate page for the crossing to Harbour Island and the island itself, including the pink sand beach and this page is about the town: the harbour front, the streets and what a day ashore looks like. Locals call the island Briland, which is worth knowing when you hear it.

Yes. Harbour Island is in the Bahamas, so this is an international flight and every passenger needs a valid passport, children and infants included. Full names and passport numbers go in when you book rather than at the dock, because both border filings are made in advance from our side. There is no check-in desk on this route and nothing to hand over at the slip.

Harbour Island has no runway and no bridge, so the last stretch is over water however you come. The port of entry for the island is North Eleuthera, three and a half miles across the harbour and the public landing on the town side is the Government Dock, where the carts are hired and Bay Street begins. Say when you enquire whether a boat is meeting you: it changes where the party steps ashore.

The Bahamas lets an aircraft arrive only at a designated port of entry and Harbour Island is not one of them, so the clearance happens at North Eleuthera on the other side of the harbour, where Bahamian immigration and customs keep an office. Passports out, forms already filed from Florida and it is quick. None of the paperwork is yours: we make both filings and arrange the clearance, so your part is the enquiry.

Yes and it is a common way to do it. Out in the morning, back before dark, with the aircraft waiting rather than turning around, so six hours ashore means six hours. Both borders are filed in advance from our side and the clearance is planned into the hours the officers keep, so the day needs nothing on your list. Nothing about it is shared with anyone.

A seaplane needs daylight on the water. Landings run from 30 minutes after sunrise to 30 minutes before sunset, so the day has a hard end rather than an open one. The customs hours at the far end close earlier than the sun, so in practice the desk sets the return.

Both clocks move through the year, which is why the latest departure for your date comes with the quote. A return arriving after dark lands on a lit runway instead of on water.

The aircraft is chartered whole rather than sold by the seat, so your party travels together on one booking and comes home on the same aircraft. How many seats that is depends on which aircraft flies your date and on the payload once baggage is aboard, so it is confirmed with the quote rather than promised in advance. Send the headcount and say whether children are travelling: they count as passengers on an international manifest.

On foot or in a golf cart and both are the point. The town is a few streets deep between the harbour and the ridge, so the shops, the churches and the waterfront are a walk rather than a drive.

Carts are hired at the Government Dock and you can circle the island in about twenty minutes and cross it in about five. A cart can be waiting when you land if you say so when you book.

Water operations depend on wind and sea state as well as visibility, so a departure can move on a day that looks clear from the beach and summer afternoons move return legs more often than mornings.

The call belongs to the operator rather than the guest and you are told before you book how a moved departure is handled. Because the aircraft carries only your party, a new slot is agreed with you rather than assigned to you.

It depends where you are starting. From South Florida the water route is a long day in its own right and lands you a long way from Harbour Island, so flying is the only version that leaves useful hours ashore. The short ferry people mean when they ask this is the one across the harbour from North Eleuthera and that crossing is part of any arrival, by air or otherwise.

Yes. Harbour Island is reachable from every departure point in the corridor and the difference in crossing time between them is worth very little once the drive is counted. The right departure point is the one closest to where you are staying, not the one closest to the island. Say where the morning starts and the answer comes back with it already chosen.

A charter is priced as a whole aircraft, not per seat, so the number moves with three things: which aircraft flies your date, how many of you there are once bags are aboard and how long the aircraft waits.

Tell us those and you get one all-in number, with the departure point, the boarding time and the hours ashore it is based on, before anything is due. Bahamian and US entry fees are inside that number rather than added at the end.

Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.