Fishy Delights Fish is prepared in a number of ways, the names of which are often confusing. Boil fish is served for breakfast. It s cooked crescent lake campground with salt pork, green peppers and onions, and served with a generous portion of grits. Stew fish is prepared with celery, tomatoes, onions, crescent lake campground and spices, all combined in a thick brown gravy; it is also served for breakfast. Steamed fish is cooked in a tomato base and is as tasty as it is novel.
Feast from the Sea The conch pronounced konk is chief among the many varieties of goodies gathered from the ocean. Claimed by the locals to be an aphrodisiac, conch can be prepared in numerous ways: for conch salad the flesh is chopped, spiced, and eaten raw with vegetables and lime juice; cracked conch is beaten and fried; and, finally, there are conch fritters. Be sure to try conch salad before you leave; it s delicious.
Cockburn Harbour is the only settlement on the island, an eclectic collection of shacks, modern houses and run-down colonial buildings that give evidence of better days. Here, most of the population lives
Sightseeing Cottage Pond is a large blue hole and only one of a number of ponds and lakes at the northwest end of the island. It s an area of natural beauty crescent lake campground alive with birds, including several species of ducks, grebes and other wading waterfowl.
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