Land of the Blessed

When you are ready to explore the Caribbean beyond the Virgin Islands and Antigua, spectacular sailing, magnificent scenery and friendly people await you in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Some 30 islands in all, the largest, beyond St. Vincent itself, are Young Island, Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, and Union Island. In between lies the fabled Tobago Cays. Taken together, this tiny, 150-square-mile commonwealth offers diversity in geography and style and a marvelous 45-mile course for island hopping. St. Vincent and the Grenadines are economically stable and bustle with enthusiasm and activity.

Even the smallest of these islands rise steeply from the ocean and St. Vincent has rain-forested tracts with waterfalls, all of which makes the mostly submerged Tobago Cays a spectacular enigma. Here, strung between a four uninhabited islets, Horseshoe Reef breaks the power of waves that might well have formed near Africa. To safely anchor just behind the reef in gin-clear water and to snorkel around the coral, perhaps floating nearly motionless above a school of fish while the ...

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