Those boats are called “Gommiers”. The boats are traditional Indian boats from the Caribbean, which at first neither had sail nor rudder. They were used for fishing and transport. It is said these are the oldest types of boats in Martinique. Gommier is a traditional boat, today built by using the same techniques as in the past.
Grande Anse de Saline (10.01-17.01)
“Monte” with her crew Andrea and Gerhard was her way to Anse Saline, here just passing Anse Meunier. We were stretching our legs along the beachesThis fellow is amazing!!! He keeps walking up and down the beach the whole day just to offer his beautiful pareos. We kept seeing him so when passing him we always had a short greeting ritual. He said: “Bonjour Monsieur Dame” and we replied syncronal singing ” Bonjour Monsieur”We walked back to welcome the crew of Monte at Anse Saline, here we just had a quick walk around the corner to get an idea how it looks like a bit further southWhen the sun sets the tourist leave , the bars close and the beach is left to the sailorsThat was the trouble with closed bars, you need to bring your own beverages if you want to enjoy the sunset at the beach…
Another hike along the coastline “La Savanna des Pétrification”
Not yet the savannah, but I liked the tidy agriculture just next to the beachHere some information for the French speaking readersEl Capitano and the oceanThe petrification startedThe only foto I took of the savanna but I took this photo through my sunglasses😎Further on it looked like thisMore remote beaches
And cheeky little birds trying to steal our picnicA stone men familyBack after a 14km walk we treated us with a well deserved lunch- yummi
Grande Anse d’Arlet (19.01-22.01)
Dinghi dock and north part of the beachand the south side of the baythe view out of the bayjust some pretty plantsashore looking northand here looking southcatching El Capitanojust a pretty bara shady place at the beachGrande Anse d’Arlet bay; we walked over to the next beach which is called Anse d’Arletclimbing up the hill fortunately with running shoes and not flipflopsAnse d’ArletEl Capitano was already over the top- lucky guythe little church of Anse d’Arlet ( the church was not incline it was me taking the pic …)the interior was simple but pretty some typical housesa beach bar to relax letting the thoughts fly…this looked like a wooden house -I liked iton our way back we took the easy way through the valley and passed by those meadowsevening impression of Grande Anse
Saint Pierre (22.01-26.01)
the bay of Saint Pierrea square in the middle of the townthis was a memorial of the brave soldiers who died for their country “La France”the entrance of the historic remains of the old theatre the theatre- at least what was left of itnext to the theatre was the prisonthis guy was one of the very few who survived the catastrophe in 1902 and old mansion – it had better timesstreet, cars, house and El Capitanoanother ruin occupied by plantsI liked the amazing wall of nature at the end of the street” la course de Gommiers” there was a race of Gommiers at the weekenda narrow cobblestone pavement road down to the beachthe promenade and for a change a pretty soppy sunset
A walk up the hill to “Notre Dame du Bon Port” and a few more pics
Notre Dame du Bon Portnature livingSaint Pierre bay just pure naturestill don’t know the name of this tree🤷♀️ain’t she gorgeousalmost there at the tophere she is Notre Dame du Bon Porta tiny geckoand a not so cute turkeyBougainvillacar remainstypical graves the cemetery of Saint Pierreon our way back to town the view over the baythe tidy, more expensive part of the cemetery?wall plants a cosy bird’s nest“Maison de la Bourse” a historic building which used to be the stock exchange house is now home for the tourist office Saint Pierre in the morning lightMount Pelée, finally got it almost without any cloudsa very cute cafe with even cuter people 😁that is a capture! right?
Fort de France the capital (26.01.-28.01)
just in case somebody needs as street painterempty streets in the afternoonreally strange when everything looks so extinctall shops closed in the afternoonthe only open bar we found including lady in orangean interesting buildingthe famous “Schoelcher” library unfortunately closed due to covidthe fort of Fort de Franceanother memorial for the people who died for the counrty in “Parc La Savane”the parc and in the background the cathedral “Saint Louis”one entrance of the fortParc La Savanne view to townthe end of the parc with the view to the portjust a giant beautiful treethe promenadea little church squeezed in between houses the interieur of the churchjbusy stretts in the morning timedrum session for kids evening impression of the bay with the ugly modern buildingmarket at Saint Pierresome fruits
Schoelcher (28.01 – 07.01)
don’t know this class of boats, but that was one type of boats which were passing every morninghere the opti kidsour neighbours daughter lived just 5 minutes up the road in Schoelcherhere we were old doggy was welcoming usthey live in a beautiful open houseincluding pooland very nice kidsPlage de Case Navire, the beach in the middle with a few bars where the locals meet in the afternoonMadiana beach, here the people play a lot of volleyball and beach tennisthis is the churchme posing on our walk to L’Anse Madame beachplace de SchoelcherEl Capitano just likes chicksbeach Anse Madamea proud coqthe stream I love the fan palmstill christmas decoration at the piera roundabout on our way to a big gro cerie storepassing public housingwe unfortunately had to walk alongside a main road, at least there was a kind of sidewalkdoggy was friendly watching uswe walked through the neighbourhood and were now happily descending houses were not always looking nicecrossing the main road to finally get to L’Eclerckisses at the grocerie storeart at the pier of Schoelcherkids in a bigger boatenjoying the sunsetAnse Madame beach from the north endlooking northstream lights our sundowner panorama
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