There is little agriculture, though the territory is home to the world's only conch farm.
By the closing stages, it was back to bring-your-own food, blowing conch shells and a sense of fun.
Hang out here for awhile and you start turning into a "Freshwater Conch" - a permanent transplant - real quick.
She compared the title national poet for Wales to the conch shell in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.
Another treatment, Mother of Pearl, uses pulverized queen conch shells in an aloe and lemongrass-oil base to exfoliate the skin.
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Fans blow conch shells, bang out a rhythm on steel brake-drums, and tote all-day liquid picnics of cold beer and rum.
We swim over conch hiding between thick green blades of turtle grass.
Catch sunset torch lightings, hula shows and conch-blowing ceremonies plus crowds of tourists and locals who clap as the sun disappears and casts a glow over Diamond Head.
The company proffers some zany homes for rent as well, like a conch seashell-shaped house in Isla Mujeres, Mexico and a converted railway car in Montana.
Operating out of a bare-bones production space since 2010, they "sort the beans, roast, crack, winnow, grind, conch and temper, then wrap, label and sign each bar, " Mr. Masonis explained.
Favorites from a recent dinner: sticky Guanabana glazed ribs with green papaya slaw, conch chowder, slow braised oxtail and spiny lobster in a dry sherry bisque with green garlic zucchini.
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She points out how Ms. Abercrombie added Surrealist elements: a wise or perhaps not wise owl, a phallic lighthouse and a conch shell, which refer to sexuality, according to Ms. Fort.
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As we turn up the road through the village that clings to the hem of Tikse's sprawling skirt, we hear the-plaintive, summoning blasts on the traditional (yes, in the Himalayas) conch-shell horn.
Properties range from small condos and conch houses to larger lots in Casa Marina and Old Town, where the average home is a two bedroom, two bath between 1, 200 and 1, 500sqft on a 2, 500 to 3, 000sqft lot.
Throw in the government of the only republic to successfully secede from the US. Yes, those Conch Republic flags say "We Seceded Where Others Failed, " and that is the Keys in a conch shell: equal parts tacky, quirky and alluring.
At the Thursday fish fry, visitors can meet Provo personalities such as Melbourne Smith, creator of Henry the Conch, a Turks and Caicos mascot whose goal is to raise awareness of the cultural and ecological importance of conch to island.
The two of them hatched get-rich-quick schemes Mr Poitier wanted to market an extract of Caribbean conch as an aphrodisiac and they shared theatre tickets: they could only afford a single ticket between them, so one would attend before the interval and one after, then each would fill the other in.
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