With its golf holes playing out to the sea and salt marsh, its dunes patrolled by brown pelicans, and lanes overhung with Spanish moss, Sea Island has the air of a genteel, hidden enclave, at ease and above the fray.
If you do get lucky, you are in for a sensory treat: familiar ingredients are used alongside intriguing Nordic delicacies such as reindeer moss from Finland, Icelandic skyr (similar to strained yoghurt) and sea buckthorn berries.