Scene: We are the only people staying at Bequia`s Spring Inn, a pair of Robinson Crusoes walking along a sandy beach that`s all ours. Well, not quite. A snow-white egret makes a slow, stately journey ...

Silver Spirit's deck with Bequia in the background.// All photos by Susan J. Young. Nestled within St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the southern Caribbean, Bequia, called “the island of the clouds” ...

“Hi sister, where are you from?” a young local calls out to me. It’s not the first time. On the streets of Port Elizabeth, in Bequia, I stand out. The constant raising and snapping of photos on my ...

Save money by cooking in your suite’s kitchen at the tucked-away Sugarapple Inn (from $110), located a few minutes’ walk away from a white-sand beach on the island’s southeast coast. To stock up on ...

"I'm going to Bequia," I told my daughter Jenn. "You're going to do what?" she asked. "Not what — where," I said of the island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which is pronounced BECK-way. Two days ...

Lawson Sargeant is bent over a scrubbed bench, fixing a tiny sail on a carved, wooden boat. It’s a fiddly and intricate business. In his workshop in Port Elizabeth, on the Caribbean island of Bequia, ...

I said I was never going to Barbados again – 29 consecutive years was quite enough, thank you. Bequia, the little Grenadine island a short hop away, was my new Caribbean love. But when the time came ...

A couple of years ago, I was going on about the delights of Bequia, my favourite place in the Caribbean. It's a little island in the Grenadines, only five miles long, with a magnificent harbour, ...