La Plantation road in front of our villa

La Plantation Room - middle room of 3 room villa

Our Chariot for the week

It almost would have fit in the overhead bin home

Orient Beach in the morning. Surprising amount of seaweed.

Tractor doing its best to remove the seaweed from the night before - typically a losing battle this week

Orient Beach View

Pinel off in the distance

Cruise ship coming

You can tell a cruise ship is going to descend upon a beach bar by how close the seats are.

Everyone travels in twos

Orient Beach

6 years ago, there used to be 10 yards of beach before you got to these rocks

From the hill

I climbed a small hill to get this shot. Not as easy as it sounds in bare feet.

Lunch at Wiakiki Beach Bar

Waiting for my shrimp tempura - grumpy time at lunch doesn't happen often in St Martin. It's just too pretty.

As Tina orders it, "I'll have my usual"

Happy reunion

Where the heck did all that seaweed come from? By far the worst seaweed problem we've seen at Orient Beach over the past 6 years.

You can see the seaweed rolling in from the water

View from our seats at Waikiki Beach at Orient Beach

Flyboard demo at Orient Beach

Pretty crazy

Grand Case at dusk

Grand Case around sunset