Clifton Harbour is the bustling main port of Union Island and the major yachting hub of the southern Grenadines.  Originally settled by the Caribs and Arawaks, Union Island fell into the possession of English and French slave traders and plantation owners and became famous for the export of Sea Island Cotton. Union Island’s volcanic silhouette means that it's also known as the "Tahiti of the West Indies".

After the peace and quiet of the Tobago Cays, Clifton Harbour offers the opportunity to have dinner at one of the town’s numerous waterfront restaurants and check out the some of the lively bars popular with the sailing community. The Anchorage Yacht Club is a stylish venue for lunch overlooking the harbor while the adjoining Anchorage Hotel has a fine collection of sharks in a specially designed pool. 

The shopping is good, with plenty of small, stylish boutiques. In the middle of Clifton Harbour sits Janti’s Happy Island, a man-made island fashioned entirely out of conch-shells with a bar and restaurant that's popular with visitors. It’s a great place to kick back for a few hours and shoot the breeze with other sailors. Be sure to try the lobster, and to wash it down with a glass of local rum. A Clifton Harbour Union Island boat charter with Sunsail enables sailors to enjoy excellent snorkeling conditions at Lagoon Reef, which protects most of the southern coast of the island, and the excellent sandy beach at Bloody Bay.