11th June 2025.......Going home day.

A visit to the beach and some last minute snaps ....

Unidentified tree

First time in 3 weeks the tides out and all rocks are exposed...

Iguana 

Buster look alike

Beach shelter

Dave having pineapple, dressed in his shorts and flight socks

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10th June 2025...Malendure, and a promise of turtles 😂

En route 

A Papaya tree

A custard apple bush

My plant!

A piece of local "art?"

Crossing from Grand terre to Basse terre.

Egrets

Arriving at Malendure in plenty of time to park!

A crab

Dave

Me

A picnic in which I was asked whether I'd 

packed the kitchen sink?

Death in Paradise 

The inspectors hut on 

Plage de perle.

Strawberry moon from apartment 

Wall hanging in apartment.

8th June 2025.... Another fab meal at Wody and Jackey's.

A Bananquit 

A Black Bullfinch 

We seat ourselves at a small table outside under sunshades.

20 mins later a tropical storm made us dash for shelter inside the restaurant.

We are served our Christophine gratin starter

Then the main plate.

An assortment of 12 tastes made from coconut and manioc, and many other things!

WidyGrego himself

and his partner Jackey, she worked so hard to keep everyone fed and dry during the déluge 

We stopped at Saint Anne's on the way back.

Beautiful clean beach...seems the Sargassum has been cleared from here.

Iguana hiding on the rocks.

This is the Sargassum, piled up in this little bay, like rotting slabs of floating yuk 😱

Close up of Iggy, he likes the flies here😂🤣😂

Dave can't resist a bit of DIY...this bench needed glueing.

That cheeky Bullfinch is back!

Digestive biscuits will be his undoing 😂

7th June 2025.....Trip on the Nautilus, lunch with crabs and chickens..!

Today a trip to Malendure, where we got on the Nautilus boat which has a glass bottom, so we can see the coral, fish and hopefully turtles.... without getting in the water.

On board and installed in the glass hull.

Our pictures were a bit blurry, but we saw a lot more than these pictures tell....

A dad surprised his kids by appearing outside the boat!

Some took to diving and snorkeling but we stayed out of the water, neither of us being good swimmers 😭

Great views from inside .

Alone in the glass hull

Meanwhile,  above on deck.

We were only about 25 to 30 people (including several babies and children) on board...so lots of space. (Can take up to 50 people)

The quick exit!

This is Pigeon island, which we sailed around.

Unfortunately we still haven't seen any turtles..😭

We had lunch at a very nice bar in Malendure, and watched the wildlife in the garden.....

When you see something dart out of a hole, you don't expect it to be a CRAB!

Or indeed, a chicken and her 7 chicks!

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After lunch we drove South towards Bouillante, where we found the dreaded Sargassum again!

We think this is the volcano???

On this mountain there is a  Volcano Observatory.

😎😎😎

So we decided to investigate, of course it was closed (weekend)

We went for a circular walk around the observatory, thinking there would be good views at 400m ....but we ended up doing around a kilometer hike through quite dense forest....

No idea what this is!!!

Us explorers😎😂🤣

Found this enormous hermit crab (at 400m!)

There will be a video to go with the hermit crab.

Hermit crab in motion!

A cannon...they seem to be everywhere 🤔

The walk

A seed pod from a mahogany tree.

A plant I thought I recognised!

Turkey tail bracket fungi

Tree roots like buttresses

Yes, we have no...

Marie Galant 

Bananas

Home to the apartment, and the reason the tides have been high!