pineknot campground 649-0946-7213, is a commercial crab farming operation, but you can visit and see how such a venture

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

800-321-3000, $170 EP. The Bay View Village, Box SS-6308, Nassau, 800-757-1357, $165 EP. Breezes, Cable Beach, 242-327-8231, $200 all-inclusive. British Colonial Hilton, Box N-7148, 800-445-8667, $150 EP. The Buena Vista Hotel, Box N-564, Nassau, 242-322-2811, $95

649-0946-7213, is a commercial crab farming operation, but you can visit and see how such a venture works, how they breed and grow crabs, maybe even take a boat tour. The Beaches Whitby Beach lies to the northeast. Then there s Pumpkin Bluff, Bluff Beach, and Horsestable Beach farther to the north and west. All deserted, all fabulous, and all littered with shells and sand dollars.