Martinique and St Lucia
Bondi Tram
Peter Colquhoun and Sandra Colquhoun
Mon 21 Feb 2011 16:48
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Approaching Marin on the south coast of Martinique, we passed Diamond
Rock. In the Napoleonic wars,
the Royal Navy hauled cannon to the top of the rock and closed the port of
Marin to French ships.
 The town of Marin
 Floating docks to antifoul yachts and catamarans are popular in
the French islands.
 Club Med
 We hired a car and toured the island
 This is the market at St. Pierre.....
 ....which was destroyed in 1904 by a fireball from the eruption of Mt.
Pelee in the background. The
town was incinerated along with 28,000 people. The only known
survivor was a prisoner in an
underground cell. 8 ships were burnt and sunk, their wrecks still
lying on the bottom of the bay.
A second eruption 2 days later killed 1,500 people in Morne Rouge on the
other side of the mountain.
 The church, rebult after being almost totally destroyed.
 The fort survived better than most of the buildings.
  Another view of Mt. Pelee
 There is extensive farming on Martinique, with cattle, sugar cane, bananas
and coconuts.
      Moving south from Martinique, we had an overnight stop at the Deux
Pitons on St. Lucia
  The Jalousie Plantation resort..we spent a few days here in
1985.
 We took a mooring for the night in this very pretty bay. Parts of the
movie Dr. Doolittle were filmed
in this area.
  The boat boy who helped us moor.....
 ....and took the line ashore, as the moorings were too close to allow boats
to swing freely. We had
to join 5 ropes together!
   Fishermen hauling their net.
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