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 DAY10 – Morning and evening lights
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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 DAY4 – Landing at St Martin and villa
So, it’s snowing at home, -8°C in the morning. Here it’s extremely hot, more a summer weather than a winter one, actually. 31°C during the day, 24°C during the night. We are not so far away from the 40°C between our both “homes”!
It’s very dry and warmer than the other years at the same period. The sun is very aggressive, our son had a allergic reaction in his face, which never happened in the last 6 years… Today he’s going better, and we could have a super nice walk at Grand Fond. More on that tomorrow!
The villa over Saint Jean bay
Just to locate us from the Saint Jean beach.
Landing at Saint Martin
A small video from the right side of the Airbus A-340 300 we took between Paris and Saint Martin, during the landing at the Juliana airport.
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2010012201.swf
Excellent!
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!
ST BARTH DAY2: Saint Jean and Do Brazil
Sitting on the terrace, 22:30, still 25°C, having a good cigar after a super dinner at Do Brazil. Had a Sex on the Beach cocktail (excellent!), a beef Tataki on fresh pink ginger with hand-made French fries :-) And a ginger rhum at the end. By the way, yesterday I had a fantastic Ti-Punch with a very interesting old rhum.
We were at the Saint Jean beach this morning, first swimming in the ocean (26°C). Just marvelous. We have met also two friends that are on the island since 4 months (lucky!!). Was not organized, but as usual, everything happens here in a “cool” way ;-)
Saint Jean beach
Landing at Saint Barth from the ocean
Another view from the villa
Playing with my EOS 5d MarkII with my new EF 35mm f/1.4L lens. ISO 200, f/9.
View from the villa by night
Same configuration, with a tripod. ISO 3200, f/4.5 , exposure time: 20s.
Stars in the sky
With the same configuration, I have taken also some pictures from the sky. No cloud but a crazy number of stars. Almost no light “polluting”. ISO: 6400, f/6.3 , exposure time: 30s.
As you see, life is hard here!
ST BARTH DAY1 – Knockin’ on Heaven’s door
Wow, posting from the terrace of our rent villa in Saint Barth :-) 26°C, some wind, listening to Placebo. It’s now fully dark, beautiful sky with a lot of stars.
Wifi is perfectly working, with a better bandwidth as the one I have at home (download 335Kb/s, upload 130 Kb/s).
It’s 22:15 local time, i.e. we are up since … 23 hours. Which is good to forget the jetlag as fast as possible.
The travel was the faster ever, really no issue this time, including all our luggage on time. We were at Saint Barth at 15:45 this afternoon. So enough time to get the car (a Mini Cooper Cab), go to the villa, have a first quick dip in the swimming-pool, get some food at the supermarket for the breakfast tomorrow, and go to the first restaurant. As usual, we have started with a visit at the Hideaway. And a first walk at the Saint Jean beach by night after the dinner. Already seen/met a lot of “known faces” and friends on the island.
View from the Airbus before landing at Saint Marteen
View from the terrace
A part of the swimming-pool, overhanging the Saint Jean Bay
Weather forecast is quite good for the coming days here. It seems that a lot of flights from New-York were canceled due to some snowstorms…
The difference of temperature between Saint Barth and Zurich could reach about 40°C in 2-3 days :-)
Everything is just *fantastic*, as usual here…
Time to go to bed now. My son will be up very early tomorrow, to go to the beach.