I disembarked at the jetty of Away, a quietly luxurious resort with a cluster of bungalows overlooking a bay.
The Cove, in the north, is a comfortable 26-room cluster of bungalows on a hillside above a small beach (242-335-5142; thecoveeleuthera.com; doubles from $235).
Its 43 rooms and 23 suites lie in a cluster of bungalows and villas, with architecture inspired by the small Creole houses characteristic of the French Caribbean.
I am still, in other words, a bit of a grown-up spoiler when the exit yields not the ice-cream parlor but more dust, more heat, a cluster of bungalows, vacated stores, an empty theater.
One morning last July, in a similarly wide-eyed state, I arrived at a modest cluster of bungalows tucked into a quiet corner of the vast lot at 20th Century Fox in Century City -- the workplace of the people who write, animate and perform "The Simpsons".
When I drove up to the two-story hotel with its cluster of bungalow-style buildings, I barely recognized it.
Most of the occupants of one court, as the clusters of 10 bungalows built around a concrete courtyard are called, are from Yorkville, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
A few summering European renters, who, somehow, found out about Broad Channel, have apparently discovered the cluster of bay bungalows.
The resort lies beside a large body of water and consists of a campsite and a cluster of basic bungalows.
