Qualla: Moonhole https://qualla.com/moonhole en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/k/3/moonhole-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Moonhole https://qualla.com/moonhole Moonhole: Introduction https://qualla.com/moonhole/ Photo credit Amilcar Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0. The bar is made from a humpback whale's jawbone. The master bath has a tree growing up through a hole in the roof. There are no walls to speak of, just plexiglass panes that lower into place when the trade winds blow too hard. This is Moonhole, a community of fifteen homes clinging to the volcanic cliffs at the western tip of Bequia, where a couple from New York's advertising world retired in the late 1960s and decided that the boundary between indoors and outdoors was a convention worth abandoning.

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/k/3/moonhole-wp/ddk3-moonhole-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Moonhole: Beneath the Arch https://qualla.com/moonhole/ Photo credit Amilcar Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0. Thomas and Gladys Johnston chose their building site with a poet's eye. A massive natural arch in the volcanic rock frames the setting moon on certain nights, and beneath that arch they built their first home with the help of local masons from the nearby village of Paget Farm. Th...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/k/3/moonhole-wp/ddk3-moonhole-beneath-the-arch.mp3 0:06 2 full Moonhole: Architecture Without Boundaries https://qualla.com/moonhole/ Photo credit Amilcar Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0. The homes the Johnstons built, and that others later added, blur every line between structure and landscape. Large rooms open directly to the sea, their stone walls rising from the volcanic rock as if they had always been there. Windows face the prevailing trade winds, designed n...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/k/3/moonhole-wp/ddk3-moonhole-architecture-without-boundaries.mp3 0:06 3 full Moonhole: A Legacy Carved in Stone https://qualla.com/moonhole/ Photo credit Amilcar Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Johnstons donated the approximately 30-acre property to the Moonhole Company Limited, a trust structure designed to outlast them. Tom bequeathed his controlling interest to a conservation trust dedicated to preserving the architecture, the lifestyle, and the wildlife of the p...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/k/3/moonhole-wp/ddk3-moonhole-a-legacy-carved-in-stone.mp3 0:06 4 full Moonhole: The View from the Cliff https://qualla.com/moonhole/ Photo credit Amilcar Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the water, Moonhole's homes are nearly invisible, their stone walls merging with the volcanic cliffs. From inside, the Caribbean stretches to the horizon without a single pane of glass to interrupt the view. The name itself captures the drama: on the right nights, the moon d...

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