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A lovely 60' long by 7' high artwork located on the public restroom building at the marketplace in French St. Martin: the mural with three joined panels, all signed by the same artist, Chance Damien, with the same date May 27, 2006, depicts aspects of the the commercial activity once the basis for the economy of the area and which still persists, albeit in diminished importance – on the left is a group of St. Martin men and women in a marketplace surrounded by local produce like bananas, in the middle panel a pair of fishermen in a rowboat haul their catch in a net, in the third panel a butcher in work clothes prepares sausages as a woman in a light-colored dress and hat approaches carrying a bag
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A woman faces a rising wave on Orient Beach. (The title is a line from an 1881 poem by Eva L. Travers.)
Overlooking Marigot Bay on the leeward side of the island (west coast) sits the imposing Fort St. Louis, the largest historical monument in St. Martin and the most important building in Marigot, originally a fishing village on a swamp for which it was named: Marigot was made capital during the reign of King Louis XVI, who had Fort St. Louis built on a this hill
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The seaweed has been swept away, the jet-skis are waiting, and naked people are out walking around -- must be morning on Orient Beach!
The statue, across the street from where we spent some Euros buying Joe a brightly-patterned Caribbean shirt at the Marigot local market, the biggest handicraft market in the Caribbean – local artist Martin Lynn designed the large and colorful cement statue circa 2005, sponsored by Janet & Gerald Carrus and reproduced by Teo Bonev, and dedicated it to the St Martin Market Women – next to the statue stands a plaque with the poem "The Market" by Ruby Bute
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Club Orient ("freedom in paradise," says its website) sprawls along the southern end of Orient Beach. Its beach is public so you can stroll through as you please. I only saw it around 7:30 in the morning on my daily walks. Ironically, at that hour the naturists (like me) were out walking the rest of the beach. There was no one here! (Though I did see one guy come out of the water wearing nothing but a pair of blue swim fins.)
A 2014 image from St. Maarten of Rotary Lookout Point at Baie de L'Embouchure.
This photo frame was extracted from a MTS video file in Adobe After Effects and processed with Darktable 3.6.0.
**Frenchside Fishing Village** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 86003580, date listed 19870106
Twenty-first, Jackson, East, Sixteenth, Harbor, and Rogers Sts.
Two Rivers, WI (Manitowoc County)
The Two Rivers Fishing Village District lies along the east bank of the Mishicot (East Twin) River, starting near the point of merger with the Neshoto (West Twin) River and their entry into Lake Michigan. It is made up of riverfront docking and boat servicing areas, fishing sheds and warehouses, a few retail stores and homes closely related in a ten block space aligned between the river. East and Jackson Streets.
The older small gabled-roofed residences, sometimes cluttered yards, fishing related buildings, net drying reels, and fishing equipment lend an historic atmosphere to the community which is tempered only slightly by telephone poles and lines overhead, cables, hanging intersection street lights and TV antennas.
The dates of significance 1855 to 1920 are cited to encompass the era following the arrival of the majority of the French Canadian families in which they and the fishing industry played the greatest role in the development of the community. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/86003580.pdf
Taxi stand where in order to get back to our cruise ship, we hired a taxi in the French capital of Marigot on the island it shares with the Netherlands, the more highly developed former Dutch colony of St. Maarten: the border is invisible except when noted on maps, or on a few welcome signs put up along the main road; Marigot is the capital and commercial hub of the French Overseas Department of St. Martin in the Caribbean
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A statue of St. Martin’s National Symbol, the Brown Pelican, a larger-than-life-size bronze pelican sculpture standing on a pile of rocks, is erected in the middle of a roundabout at Boulevard de France and Place du Marché, center of Marigot, Saint Martin, that occupies the somewhat larger, less populous northern half of the island, the community -"Collectivité"- of France, part of the European Union, faces out towards the Atlantic on its eastern side and is washed by the waters of the Caribbean Sea on the west coast; Sint-Maarten (St. Maarten) is located in the southern half of the island, the Dutch side
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We kept coming back to the Coco Beach restaurant and beach bar. We really liked the ambience, service, and menu.
I was going to call this shot "Something for the Ladies." But every lady I've shown it to has said something like, "Eeuw!" An afternoon on Orient Beach.
A rock on Orient Beach, covered with various encrustations and continually bathed in the waves of Orient Bay. It sets off the beauty around it.
While my wife lazed in the sun on Orient Beach, three miles to the east on the Atlantic side of Saint Martin, I took pictures of Grand Case on the Caribbean side.
During this time span, I was on a complete HDR kick. I was still using Canon's DPP software, so I didn't have the versatility when it came to post-processing. I was REALLY loving the look at the time. And it seemed like the best (or sometimes the only) way to go to get my pictures to look good. But since then, I've acquired Lightroom; and I feel like I'm constantly gaining more know-how in the PP area. In fact, quite recently, I've almost abandoned HDR altogether. Not that I don't care for it or anything (because done right, it makes for awesome looking pictures); but I know it's not always needed.
Disney Cruise Destination - 2009
Pic Paradis - Loterie Farm
St. Martin
We drove to Grand Case (on the Caribbean side of the island) from Orient Beach (on the Atlantic side) -- a distance of three miles -- to have dinner at one of the several great restaurants on Grand Case's "Restaurant Row." In doing so we got to see a glorious tropical sunset, not available on east-facing Orient Beach.
BayWatch, with its distinctive decor (and a New Jersey vibe not visible here), one of a number of beach bars and restaurants in the middle of Orient Beach.
While my wife lazed in the sun on Orient Beach, three miles to the east on the Atlantic side of Saint Martin, I took pictures of Grand Case on the Caribbean side.
Each morning they put out these chairs in precise order. They put pegs in the sand and run a rope between them. Then they line up the chairs against the rope.
Looking eastward from Orient Beach. The tiny island on the left is Tintamarre and on the right Green Key.
Was Batman on vacation at Orient Beach? Not exactly. A guy who was kitesurfing over Orient Bay lost the wind. When his rented kite plopped into the water, this guy had to retrieve it. He pulled the kite out of the surf (the wind blew it toward shore) and "flew" it back to the rental shack -- the breeze kept it in the air as he walked!
"20 years of fun in the sun!" Nice slogan. Bikini Beach on Orient Beach. Bikini Beach is the casual name for that stretch of Orient Beach by the Bikini Beach Tapas Bar and Grill. (It's still really Orient Beach, though.)
Spiny lobsters in a tank in the window of Ocean 82, a restaurant on Grand Case Boulevard. These are Caribbean lobsters; they don't have the big crusher claws that Maine lobsters do.
That cluster of green-roofed buildings at the north end of Orient Beach is the Mont Vernon residence. (It's "mont" because it's French.) Once a hotel, it's now a complex of condos that the owners rent out. We stayed there for a week.
Marigot, the capital of the French side of St Martin. We drove here from Orient Beach one morning, mainly to stroll through the marketplace.
The dock at the Karibuni Restaurant on Pinel Island. It faces north and is around the point from the dock where the ferry lands at Yellow Beach.
As the shadows began to lengthen, people left the beach. The restaurants retrieved and stacked their lounges, chairs, umbrellas, and tables. The next morning they'd put them all out again.
A massage "parlor" under a coconut palm on Orient Beach. Massages were also offered on the beach.
The prices here have gone up. An hour massage originally cost $80 and a half-hour $45, but the dollar signs have been painted over. So 80 and 45 dollars are now 80 and 45 euros (the euro is the official currency on the French part of the island). Given the current exchange rate (1 euro = 1.3 dollars), a massage that once cost $80 now costs $104, and one that cost $45 is now $58.50.
Fort St. Louis (sometimes called Fort Louis) is the main tourist attraction of Marigot, the capital of St. Martin. It rises over the Caribbean Sea and Marigot's small harbor.
The first fortifications and guns were installed in the 1760s. The fort as it now exists was built by France shortly aftereward, under King Louis XVI. It protected stocks of the island's main products, coffee, salt, rum, and sugar cane. The name derives from King Louis XI of France, called St. Louis. The division of the island occurred in 1648.
The posh West Indies Mall is at the foot of the hill.
Marigot is the capital of the French half of the island of St. Martin. The Dutch half is called Sint Maarten. St. Martin is an overseas collectivité of France. Note the French flag flying over the fort.
At the Karibuni Restaurant on Pinel Island. These two girls, who worked at the restaurant, chatted in French and smoked cigarettes. They were laughing because a guy who also worked there had "threatened" them with a wet and writhing spiny lobster as he brought it to the kitchen.
Coco Beach Restaurant. We went here for breakfast on our first day on Orient Beach. (This area of Orient Beach is named for the restaurant, as other areas are named for other restaurants. But it's all one beach -- Orient Beach.)
Each of the restaurants along Orient Beach rents lounges and umbrellas. They set them out every morning and take them back every night.