Grand Case is small community on the north side of St Martin. It sits in a wide sweeping bay that has a great beach that seems to go on for…
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A mile away from Ile Pinel is Tintemarre Island. Both small islands are off the east coast of the French side of St Martin. They both have wonderful beaches, but…
As I was telling you yesterday, Ile Pinel has dozens on iguanas on it and they all scurry down from the rocks and onto the beach area whenever someone starts…
At the north end of Orient Bay, on the French side of St Martin, there is an amazing little island called Ile Pinel. While Orient Bay is choppy and exposed…
When my best friend, his brother (another close friend), his brother’s family, and I did the short hike up Fife Hill at the entrance to Oyster Pond we found some…
Oyster Pond, on the east coast of St Martin, has a tricky entrance and is on a lee shore. Once you get inside the bay it is flat calm and…
Earlier this week I wrote about walking to Fort Amsterdam and how I did not think it was worth the effort. Well what is worth the effort is to take…
St Martin is one of the easiest places to check into and out of, but there are only three places to do this. The first place is at the bridge…
Fort Amsterdam was built by the Dutch in 1631 and is located on the peninsula separating Great Bay and Little Bay. Two years later the Spanish captured, and occupied, the…
Over 400 years ago the Dutch settled on the south side of St Martin in order to harvest salt from the large salt pond across from a narrow strip of…