Explore the island on a daily jeep tour led by two naturalists on staff at the hotel, or go on an escorted birding walk, available to all guests and included in the hotel's basic rate.

Wander the Dungeness Ruins, a Carnegie home abandoned in the Great Depression that burned in 1959. It's part of a larger historic district that was home to several significant families in American history.

Visit the small wooden First African Baptist Church, established in 1893 and rebuilt in the 1930s, where John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in 1996.