The spa is so strong, says Van Regemorter, that Parrot Cay guests come for the day.
As David Cay Johnston suggested in The Fine Print, the AJCA has an ironic name.
On Leaf Cay, for example, yard-long rock iguanas sun themselves with a languor unbecoming an endangered species.
And by the time we reached Parrot Cay resort, I was regretting my decision to fly solo.
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Private home building on 640-acre Staniel Cay is flourishing and gives some parts of the island a ramshackle appearance.
We buzzed the house of actor Bruce Willis, on Parrot Cay--10, 000 square feet and one bedroom, according to local gossip.
One reason may be that while Parrot Cay excels at Eastern treatments, the Regent Palms has pulled off East meets West.
If you are up for more of a party atmosphere, Nippers on Great Guana Cay has a legendary pig roast on Sundays.
One day we ran to Green Turtle Cay for a casual lobster salad lunch on the patio of the Green Turtle Club.
The Bahamian government has promised to step up efforts to bring paved roads to the cay, where cars aren't allowed, only golf carts.
Several years ago, he had bought a house on Ambergris Cay in Belize that had been damaged in a hurricane, the family said.
Hemingway found Bimini, but Harold Hartman, onetime owner of a New Jersey box company, made the tiny island of Staniel Cay his adopted home.
We took a flight to Miami, then a puddle-jumper direct to Treasure Cay, one of the largest and most developed of the Abaco Islands.
That's impressive, because Parrot Cay not only has one of the best spas in the Caribbean but is about 40 minutes away by boat.
The announcement follows reports that the stars tied the knot on Wednesday at the Parrot Cay resort in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos.
In 1973 Hartman neighbor Martha Wohlford, a novelist, used sideband radio to set up the first communications link between Staniel Cay and the outside world.
Man 'O War Cay has been the centre of Bahamian boat-building for 200 years, with the Albury Brothers still plying the trade along the waterfront.
After quick introductions, cooler-loading, and total-body sunscreen application, we were idling out of the narrow channel from Treasure Cay Marina to the open waters of the Abaco Sea.
Deltec bank executive chairman Jean Chalopin told BBC News that Mr Fraser-Smith was the victim of a "tragic accident" at his home in the Lyford Cay area of Nassau.
Franklin traded for his own accounts and that of Lyford Cay, a hedge fund he managed at Bear Stearns whose investors were several senior managers of the firm, according to the SEC.
The couple and three children (a newborn, a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old) moved into a three-bedroom home in Hope Town, a village of 400 on Elbow Cay, part of the Bahamian island of Abaco.
While he was trading on the information for himself and Lyford Cay fund, a Bear Stearns colleague, Robert Babcock, 33, figured out the trading patterns and began to mimic Franklin's trading for his own account.
In 1998 Parrot Cay debuted, on a tiny, private cay accessible only by boat, and early in 2005, The Palms resort on the "big" island of Providenciales (population: 6, 000) opened, promoting its spa as its centerpiece.
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After checking into the Treasure Cay Resort and Marina ( www.treasurecay.com), I headed to the docks for a look at the 26-foot open sport fishing powerboat I rented for the next four days, complete with diving gear and pole spears.
Part of the charm of visiting Staniel Cay, which is a 30 minute flight from Nassau, is eavesdropping on other visitors over channel 16, used as a kind of public address system by all 100 of the island's residents and 40 vacation homeowners.
In fact, the cruise line's 1, 000-acre island private island, Castaway Cay, located between Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, is a complete letdown, with little more than a few play areas, a sunken boat to snorkel around and three beaches to wade in.
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