During our last day on the island, we have walked around the Toiny beach. Still quite windy, but again some fantastic and wild landscapes!
I like very much this picture of my son, looking at Saint Barth, in the wind.
This part of Saint Barth is really cool!
Although we are back from paradise/Saint Barth, and fully jetlagged, I would like to continue for a while to publish some posts, in order to finish this “Saint Barth 2009 series”.
The last two days in St Barth were quite windy and consequently, we have decided to have a walk on the “wild” coast of St Barth. Completely different landscapes there, you should understand rapidly the reason of the name “wild” ;-)
Our first walk was around the Grand Fond Bay.
For some pictures, it looks a bit like … Ireland ;-)
A video will also follow!
And now, the Lorient beach!
http://cdn.smugmug.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf
From the Do Brazil restaurant in Saint Barth, for the lunch. I don’t know so many restaurants with such kind of views on a beach (actually it is Shell Beach) ;-) Very nice people there, good food for reasonable price. Recommended by the whole family for lunch and/or dinner!
(Yes, my son is playing with his/my PSP after the ice-cream ;-)
Surely our favorite beach in Saint Barth, Colombier Bay. You have to walk about 20’ to access the beach, with some fantastic views on the ocean. And there, a marvelous place for snorkeling! Some underwater pictures to come!
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf
Some new big panoramas (created with Panorama Factory).
And today, Saline Beach, I think the largest in Saint Barth. Very nice actually, we like it a lot! Some pictures and as usual now, a video (a bit longer this time) realized with MS Windows Movie Maker. It is not Adobe Premiere for sure, but not sooo bad for a small sequence.
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf
The Saint Jean Beach, as usual with beautiful colors. Lots of families are coming here, as the beach is quite protected from the swell and the biggest waves.
And a short video taken from this beach!
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf
We had our first snorkeling session on last Wednesday but the vision was not ideal under water, as there is still a quite strong swell. Anyway, I saw my first sea-turtle in Saint Jean Bay, exactly at the same place as last year, just after the white boat in the middle of the picture below!
Bottom is at about 3-4m there. Sea-turtle was about motionless and eating some underwater herbs. The turtle was about 80cm long. It is also the first time that I see a pilot fish on top of the turtle shell!
I have quite massively adjusted the pictures (contrast, color and saturation). The pictures are a bit pixelated but still from far better as I have thought!
Camera: Canon IXUS 700 with a Canon waterproof case (WP-DC70).
Bigger resolution available on smugmug, just click on the pictures!
Some fantastic panoramic views from the terrace of our (rented) villa in Saint Barth. These panoramic pictures are based on 5 to 7 pictures and are stitched with The Panorama Factory (v3.4).
Be careful, the original versions are quite big:
Not so bad, as I didn’t use any tripod…