Just fifty miles east of Miami, Florida, is the world-famous fishing destination Alice Town on North Bimini. Capital of the tiny Bimini island chain, Alice Town is also one of the most well-known party sites anywhere in the Bahamas.

Popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who described it as a hard-drinking fishing refuge, the town's numerous hotels and marinas continue to provide plenty of activity for anglers, divers and snorkellers, as well as a freewheeling, somewhat ribald atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of the town's glory days.

With more than two hundred hotel rooms in a six-block-square area, Alice Town has a number of notable fishing clubs and resorts.

Best known is the Compleat Angler Hotel , King's Highway (phone 242/347-3122; US$50-75), where Hemingway drank, fought and wrote the novel To Have and Have Not . It houses a collection of Hemingway memorabilia including rare photographs of the author.

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