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Paddleboarding Staniel Cay is especially easy for guests Staniel Cay Yacht Club, the preeminent place to stay here since 1956.

Tropic of Cancer Beach is the longest beach on Little Exuma and it's blessed with white sand and water that has to be seen to be believed.

One of the more aptly-named beaches anywhere, Pig Beach is also easily among the most uncommon. This is home to the famous swimming pigs of Big Major Cay.

The joys of solitude are easily found among the 360+ islets, cays, and rocks that comprise the Exuma chain of The Bahamas.

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to catch much of the beauty and fun to be had at the Black Point Regatta. One thing I missed, and now desperately want to experience is perhaps the most uncommon aspect of the event: the ugly. Specifically, the "world famous" Ugly Man Contest.

Morning coffee or tea, some fresh fruit, and a bagel on the balcony of my supremely spacious, 2,600 square-foot penthouse villa, the highest elevation along Emerald Bay in Great Exuma, proved an inspiring way to start the day. There was only one problem...

A good 360 islands, islets, cays, and rocks lay scattered about this extraordinary corner of The Bahamas that is the Exumas, all of them sporting the same crystalline seas.

One of the top dive sites in the Exuma Islands of The Bahamas, Amberjack is a patch reef measuring about 50 feet in length that is ideal for all levels of divers.

Interspersed among the 360 islands, islets, and cays in the Exuma chain of The Bahamas are little patches of sandy heaven like this. Sandbars: pure Bahamas paradise.