August 4, 1513 The fleet had departed the island of La Vieja on July 25 to continue the search for the elusive island of Bimini, sailing amongst very low lying Lucayan islands (today's Bahamas Isl… ...

Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now the Bahamas.