Known for its sugar-white sands and clear waters, it is popular for scuba diving and snorkeling.

From the distance, a tiny red speck appeared at the edge of an island fringed with sugar-white sand and topped with impenetrable jungle.

Sliding into sparkling blue water, strolling along sugar-white sand under a full moon with hands clasped and eyes dreamy.

By the next afternoon, half of its 400 rooms were occupied, as were its 300 blue beach chairs set up along sugar-white sand and turquoise surf.

Unspoilt sugar-white sands, coconut palms, mangrove forests and rich blue, glassy waters - it's got everything you'd demand from a Brazilian beach resort and then some.

Overhead, a billboard swam with a warm blue sea hemmed by sugar-white sand.

The boat was nosing into a small cove, and gentle waves broke upon a fringe of sugar-white sand.

Horn Island has long stretches of sugar-white sand, dunes punctuated with sea oats, tall pines on small groves, and a few inland lagoons.

Cayo Largo is a tourist enclave where visitors are never more than a few yards from sugar-white sands.

Most islands are fringed by narrow beaches with sugar-white sand, but note that the water is brackish, not clear, and very sh.