Some pics from our Autogyro flight the 10th of Feb. 2022
It was just a pity that we weren’t allowed to stay at the airfield. Only El Capitano managed to catch a few shots while he was leaving the manoeuvring area. We would have loved to get some pics from the departure or the landing.
the huge entrance for the international airportwaiting for the pilot to pick us uphere she was, the autogyro in its hangar flying along road N6towards île de la Caravellea few islets south of Caravellea nice reefthe waves reaching the reef no, thats not usa bay looking south in the background FdF and the airportLes Trois ÎletsFort de Francelanding procedure – very easy and fastplane parking lotSophie, the pilot and El capitano just after his exciting experiencethat was Norbert’s autogyro flight
Fort de France
Exploring Martinique by car with Andrea and Andreas 14.-17.02.22
Sacre Coeur de Martinique
It was not at all as impressive as Sacre Coeur, but as we passed it anyhow we as well took some pics…
I liked the bird’s nest in the street lampleft rows were for the people from the north Caraibe districts and the right rows for the south district 🤷♀️? at least that was written on the valentine hearts
The tropical garden “Jardin de Balata”
the valley of the gardennot only humming birds like the bird bathframed double A’s in the show roomtraditional dresses I guess, there were not much explanation if I recall rightbeautiful leavesmany palm treeswater collecting plantscurled trunk palm treesan umbrella palm?this is a ficus strangler, it wraps around his host(tree) over time but reassures he does not make his host suffer any inconvenience; it’s hard to see on the pic but the ficus wraps around a palm tree the mystic woodwe were there, tooand some other people, thanks to A or A for the picsa lily ponda tree trunk with spikes, unfortunately I don’t know the name of this treerailing treesa fern leave ready to windKing Kong Heliconia- I liked its namePorcelan rose, hummingbirds love themI have no idea what we were looking at…must have been interesting Andreas could not hide from Norberts zoomAndrea caught me annoying the fish; btw. I was so proud of my new homemade purse
Heading to Le Precheur and passing the “Cascade Du Saut-Gendarme”
somewhere down there was the cascadenot yet visiblethe view back upwe had to pass the little stream to reach the cascadeiphone captureEOS long expositionEOS short exposition; which pic is the best?a little chapel somewhere on our way to Saint Pierrepassing the church in “Fonds Mascret”sandwich lunch at the platform in Saint Pierre, including a -just out of bed look-“Anse Couleuvre “at the end of Le Precheurchatting -corona compliant with a lot of distance- at the beach of Couleuvre
Rhum J.M. and a quick stop almost at the top of Mount Pelee
Due to the fantastic weather, we almost didn’t take any pics at the mountain.
the freezing couple at about 1200 metres altitudewe were desperate for a bathroom…very inviting (and blurry – sorry)the pretty valley where the distillery was locatedno idea what that was, but I liked itEl Capitano preparing for the rumsome old machinewe were allowed to walk by through all the processing areas, unfortunately without any explanationcane sugar fermenting?definitely rum barrels!the surrounding older barrelsand finally the fun areabefore heading back a short stop at Le Lorrainat the east side of Martinique
Our last day with Andrea and Andreas we felt like hiking at the south east coast side
a crab trap the powerful walkerssome people live at the beachanybody missing his shoe?boy! was I brave ; it does look steep doesn’t it?finally a pretty shothere we were at the village of the pottery, I liked the bag, maybe one day I sew a similar one…banana leave art
FdF and honeymoon visitors Walli and Lutz from Germany
A video from FdF the week before carnival and the curfew still starting 8pm
Same place only a day later when the curfew was released to 10pm, finally so many people, yeahhhhh!
Walli and Sabinethe lovebirdsLutz trying to keep all his fingers while cutting the coconuthappy sailingthanks to Lutz we had some fun picstheir last dayand saying sadly goodbye
SY Altimate 
Danke für die schönen Bilder!
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