Sawing…

I have to cut 6 old (about 40 years old) and big (about 15m high) firs in the garden near our house. Started on last Saturday with the first one…

Always have the impression I’m Charles Ingalls in the Little House on the prairie :-)

 

My son (1.35m) in the branchs!

So, still 5 to go :-)

Snowy morning…

March 11, still winter time.

This morning: snow and -3°C.

ST BARTH DAY14 – Saint Jean and its sea turtles

Again, Saint Jean Beach, with its sea turtles. So elegant!

Sea turtles

 

Saint Jean

 

ST BARTH DAY13 – Saline beach again

Saline beach again…

Saline beach

 

ST BARTH DAY10 – Morning and evening lights

Some examples of the different lights on Saint Barth. Always changing, always interesting and beautiful...

From the villa at 07:00

 

From the Gustavia lighthouse at 18:00

 

Gustavia harbor at 18:30

 

ST BARTH DAY9 – Gouverneur

Ahhh Gouverneur…

Surely one of our preferred beach on Saint Barth. The colors are just crazy. We had definitely a great time there!

Gouverneur beach

 

 

ST BARTH DAY8 – Big waves at Flamand and Lorient beach

The swell has generated quite bug waves yesterday! We had a walk at Flamand beach in the morning, quite impressive. Never seen such kind of waves in the last 6 years…

Then, a visit to the Lorient beach, beautiful colors, lots of families. Really cool.

We had a super nice dinner at the Eden Rock. Always one of the dinners’ highlight on Saint Barth ;-)

Big waves at Flamand

 

Lorient beach

 

 

Intensive day ;-)

ST BARTH DAY7 – Palm trees shadows on Saint Jean Beach

We had another great morning at the Saint Jean Beach. The afternoon was quite cloudy, but hey, that was ok for our skins ;-)

A “simple” evening at the restaurant/take away “Le Petit Bouchon”. I had a cool Beef Carpaccio, with a lot of Parmesan and … French fries!

Shadows on Saint Jean Beach

This evening should one of the “dinner highlight”!

More on that tomorrow.

ST BARTH DAY6 – Colombier and Petite Anse

Colombier Bay is still so marvelous. We were there quite early in the morning and were alone on the beach during 2 hours. Nice experience ;-)

The views during the walk to the Colombier beach are quite fantastic.

Nice evening too at the Pipiri Palace restaurant in Gustavia. As usual there, good atmosphere, good service, nice people, and very good meal.

Colombier

 

Walk to Colombier

 

Petite Anse

 

Yes, we know that it is still snowing at home, again 10cm!

ST BARTH DAY5 – Grand Fond and its “baignoires”

Yesterday was another great “Saint Barth’s” day!

First a great 3-hours stroll at Grand Fond, where we have visited the so-called “baignoires”, i.e. the natural baths created by the ocean erosion.

Also our first shopping at Gustavia: Pati of Saint Barth, Mia Zia, etc.

Then a very good dinner at Maya’s restaurant. Cool and efficient service, very fresh. I had first a Mojito cocktail, then a big salad (mesclun, how do you call it in English?) and a fantastic Tandori (no Roy it wasn’t so much spicy, as you would like it ;-).

Everywhere, a lot of cool known faces, who made us feel at home!

Grand Fond beach

The famous baignoires of Saint Barth

 

 

 

That’s exactly the kind of perfect day which will make us come back here as soon as possible…

Tomorrow should be another stroll to Colombier, with a snorkeling session.

ST BARTH DAY3 – Saline Beach

Monday was very hot, no wind until the evening. Wow, good for the tan and heavy for the skin ;-) No restaurant, but BBQs at the villa.

Saline beach

Swimming-pool of the villa

Cool day, again!

Winter time

This week-end was quite special. We had first -12°C during the day on Saturday. Then -14°C during the night from Saturday to Sunday.

Sunday was much more warm, about -3°C, but with 15 cm snow and a very strange light.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF17-40, ISO 3200, post-prod with DxO Optics Pro v6.1)

Some other pictures on visuals.didierbeck.com.

Saint Barth Portfolio 2009 (wrap up) – February 2009

Finally the wrap up/poster of my Saint Barth Portfolio 2009.

I have started to publish this portfolio on June 18, 2009 with this post.

The idea was the following:

I will publish 2 pictures from each region of the island per post. Force to choose ;-)

I hope I haven’t bothered you too much with these 16 posts!

I really had to finish, as the countdown is running for our next stay in Saint Barth (February 2010)! About 50 days to go :-)