St. Barts

It was LOVE, LOVe, LOve, 

at first sight

1 hour 15 minute ferry from St. Martin to St. Barts

 St. Barts

is beautiful, clean, posh, and French

Since these are a few of my favorite things

I was in Caribbean heaven

~*Sun, Sand, Beaches, Baguettes, Croissants*~

Just a few Yachts in Gustavia, St. Barts

And a few more.....

Crystal clear water

Our student budget

had us staying at a quaint little B&B

The Normandie Hotel

Normandie Hotel Pool Deck 

The hotel was Nautical themed

It was a cute boutique style hotel/ B&B

with clean and friendly staff and

French breakfast

All at a reasonable price

withing walking distance to beautiful Lorient Beach

Colourful sign and cans for cigarette butts...oh the french

Our stay on St. Barts 

was short and sweet

However,

We rented a car 

and toured the whole island with ease

We Loved, loved, loved, every minute of it

We sampled a few beaches

Saline Beach *tres belle*

Lorient Beach *Great Surf*

Shell Beach *Unique*

Shell beach 

truly lives up to its name

the whole beach is covered with sea shells

She sells sea shells by the seashore

Steve, Nathan, Anne, Joel

St. Barts 

is also known for high end shopping

We shopped (mostly window) in the two towns/cities

Gustavia (the port and capital) and St. Jean (the airport)

Even the graveyards are ridiculously beautiful on St.Barts

Cotton Plants... it really feels like cotton!!!

Beach side Hut for Lunch

Checking out the Surf

The St. Barts highlight was definitely 

Surfing on Lorient beach

Nathan, Joel, Steve

The boys were so happy and excited

It was as if Christmas came early!

Surf's up!

I also joined them Surfing

I had previously tried surfing, a few times, at home in the cold Atlantic

All I can say is 

warm water makes it much more pleasurable

I can't wait to try it again :)

Nathan & Angela

I was SO sad to leave St. Barts

It has everything you could EVER want right at your finger tips

The pain was eased slightly 

when we realized our Travel Club 

were  the only people on the plane!

Private Planes.... this is how we roll ....

So we ended our St. Barts experience

In Style

with a private "charted" Winair flight   

St. Barts Airport

 All in all

no one could imagine a better vacation

Beautiful islands + Great friends ='s 

The Perfect Vacation

Some might even call it

Legend.... wait for it... dary

Living up to my blog name...Island Adventures

So much fun

 and adventure
has happened within the last week
during our vacation

rock climbing, cliff jumping, spear fishing

It is hard to know where to start...

so I will continue to outline a day-by-day
recap of our wonderful holiday

Day six

Little Bay, Anguilla

Cute 'little bay' with a secluded atmosphere

you have to either arrive here by boat
or
rock climb down a steep cliff

although since it was featured on the shoe "The Bachelor" 

we had lots of other people joining in our fun.

View above Little Bay

Climbing down Little Bay

The Ladies Above Little Bay (Ashley, Angela, Anne)

The cooler handoff 

A very important job

The gentlemen (Joel, Nathan, Steve)

A popular Little Bay attraction is 

cliff jumping into the water.

From the top...

it was a very high jump

into very clear but very deep water

this illusion was a bit much for some of us...

after this experience

it became clear our friends and ourselves 

fall into three categories 

when asked the question

'if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you?'

Ashley 

would not

I might 

(after hesitating I jumped once, climbed up to jump a second time, but climbed down)

Ashley and I hesitating to Jump

and

Anne, Joel, Nathan, and Steve

Would in a heart beat!

Anne jumping like a pro!

All in all, a great day and  island adventure!

Later we returned to Shoal bay Beach 

to enjoy the Caribbean Sunset

C'est Romantique

We LOVE Anguilla!

Day Seven

Spear fishing

need I say more

A local guy (Garvin) who takes care of our villa 

and his brother

took us spear fishing

in our own back yard

we caught a feast

Something's Fishy....

well...actually...

 it's a good thing the locals helped

because from our group 

Steve was the only success

catching two small fish

Rainbow Fish

Fish Models......I think yes! 

One of these things is not like the other

Although my fish 

in the above picture is big

It's not quite as big as the Marlin below 

caught during the fishing competition

during the Festival Del Mar

It was lots of fun snorkeling 

and watching the guys fish

they even cleaned them for us!

later we had an excellent feast:)

Day Eight

Easter Sunday

we joined in the spirit of easter 

and went to an Easter Sunday mass

The Caribbean flavor is infused into the service 

for example

they sing the 'our father'

in an funky and upbeat manner.

Crash, Bang, Boom or Bam!

All our fun got the best of us

we all had a great afternoon siesta...

We toasted our Anguilla trip with drinks 

at another fancy resort

Cap Julica

Sun Set Pictures at Cap Julica

Cheers to a great Vacation!

 Anguilla 

truly is a Caribbean paradise

we left with lots 

and lots

of fond memories

for the second, but much shorter, leg of our vacation

St. Barts