A true discovery!

The Wednesdays in my life are for exploration

Exploration of the island, of silent beaches and roughish trails, of unknown places that still can be found today; they are not known to the general public and there is no or hardly writing about them in tourist brochures either...

Some examples can be read about here and here

Will you come and explore with me today?

some time ago, when the weather was not too sunny and a day at the beach did not feel attractive to us, my friend A. and I decided to find the place that we had heard of...

we had to take a mud road that had a sign: prohibited, for residents only etc. At the end of this road we came at the above place, it is on the island's (French) west coast.

Remnants of what once must have been a big building, a resort we found out later; the image is clickable and you can see Marigot in the distance, the green hill in the middle left is Point Bluff, a point of St. Martin that sits in the Caribbean sea and can only be reached by crossing the ruins of the building, plus by sea of course

the place we were looking for had to be somewhat to the left, it is hidden from direct view and once again you have to cross some rocks by foot

but it is worth the effort, for there it was, finally, Devil's Hole!

I fell silent when seeing this, a treasure of light, of structure and natural beauty

and in my fantasy I could see other explorers, fishermen and adventurers, bringing ashore stuff that better be hid from the daylight... in ancient times when the seas of this splendid Caribbean had a different meaning than it has today in the age of tourism

Thanks for joining me on my exploration,

Regina