For our third full day at St Barts, we decided to take things a bit easy, after having a very full and busy first two days.
We started off with our usual Saline swim. The beach was somewhat eroded this morning, and there was more seaweed, and more seaweed constantly coming in. The water was pretty clear of it when we got in, but an hour later it was really too much to enjoy swimming in. It was a lot less wavy though, and I'd say it was more fun to swim in, with big swells to ride, rather than crashing waves pushing us around.
After breakfast at the cottage, we headed out to Shell Beach to do some snorkelling. My wife had never gone before so it was a bit of an adventure. She was very nervous about it, and she had some trouble getting the mask to seal properly, but in the end she was starting to get the hang of it As for myself, I wasn't sure if I'd get snorkelling, as I have some light sensitivity issues, but I tried the goggles I bought yesterday, and they worked great. I was even able to attach the snorkel to them. In the end we saw several varieties of fish, and had a good time. Those shells at that beach though, they get everywhere! It was quite the chore cleaning them off later.
After snorkelling, we stopped at a supermarket in Gustavia, and picked up some cheeses, and then went to a patisserie (I forget the name, it's across from the post office), picked up some bread and some sweet treats - a kind of pastry that looked like a sandwich bun with cream in the middle, a raspberry tart, and these little sandwich cookies. We had lunch back at the cottage - bread and cheeses and veggies, with the treats from the patisserie for dessert.
The afternoon we just spent lounging around the cottage. We skyped back home and talked to my parents and our 4 year old son, and just relaxed and took it easy.
For supper, we went to L'Esprit. WOW - we both thought this was possibly the best meal we'd ever had. What was amazing about the meal was it was mainly a combination of things I didn't like. One of the little appetizers they brought out was mahi mahi tampura on shredded zuccini. I don't like fish, and I don't like zuccini, but it was really tasty. We also has the cockels with foie gras chips. Again, I don't like seafood, I didn't really like the foie gras we tried at M&P, and it also had asparagus, which I don't like. But it was so incredibly yummy anyways. Then they brought out this mint ice to cleanse our palates, and our main course was pigeon with a celeriac pie. For dessert, we had pistachio raspberry cake with lemongrass jelly and lime mousse. To drink we had a Lemon Tree Sour. It was all delectable. We were also really impressed, that when we told them we were sharing everything, they split each item up into two smaller portions, so we still each had our own plate of nicely arranged food. So few restaurants do this, and it makes such a huge difference to us.
After dinner, we came back to the cottage, and went for a night-time swim in the pool. And that ends another wonderful day in St Barts! Tomorrow our plan is to do the Washing Machine hike, and try a second go at snorkelling at Shell Beach.
We started off with our usual Saline swim. The beach was somewhat eroded this morning, and there was more seaweed, and more seaweed constantly coming in. The water was pretty clear of it when we got in, but an hour later it was really too much to enjoy swimming in. It was a lot less wavy though, and I'd say it was more fun to swim in, with big swells to ride, rather than crashing waves pushing us around.
After breakfast at the cottage, we headed out to Shell Beach to do some snorkelling. My wife had never gone before so it was a bit of an adventure. She was very nervous about it, and she had some trouble getting the mask to seal properly, but in the end she was starting to get the hang of it As for myself, I wasn't sure if I'd get snorkelling, as I have some light sensitivity issues, but I tried the goggles I bought yesterday, and they worked great. I was even able to attach the snorkel to them. In the end we saw several varieties of fish, and had a good time. Those shells at that beach though, they get everywhere! It was quite the chore cleaning them off later.
After snorkelling, we stopped at a supermarket in Gustavia, and picked up some cheeses, and then went to a patisserie (I forget the name, it's across from the post office), picked up some bread and some sweet treats - a kind of pastry that looked like a sandwich bun with cream in the middle, a raspberry tart, and these little sandwich cookies. We had lunch back at the cottage - bread and cheeses and veggies, with the treats from the patisserie for dessert.
The afternoon we just spent lounging around the cottage. We skyped back home and talked to my parents and our 4 year old son, and just relaxed and took it easy.
For supper, we went to L'Esprit. WOW - we both thought this was possibly the best meal we'd ever had. What was amazing about the meal was it was mainly a combination of things I didn't like. One of the little appetizers they brought out was mahi mahi tampura on shredded zuccini. I don't like fish, and I don't like zuccini, but it was really tasty. We also has the cockels with foie gras chips. Again, I don't like seafood, I didn't really like the foie gras we tried at M&P, and it also had asparagus, which I don't like. But it was so incredibly yummy anyways. Then they brought out this mint ice to cleanse our palates, and our main course was pigeon with a celeriac pie. For dessert, we had pistachio raspberry cake with lemongrass jelly and lime mousse. To drink we had a Lemon Tree Sour. It was all delectable. We were also really impressed, that when we told them we were sharing everything, they split each item up into two smaller portions, so we still each had our own plate of nicely arranged food. So few restaurants do this, and it makes such a huge difference to us.
After dinner, we came back to the cottage, and went for a night-time swim in the pool. And that ends another wonderful day in St Barts! Tomorrow our plan is to do the Washing Machine hike, and try a second go at snorkelling at Shell Beach.
D) is our plan for Monday morning. Jean-Philippe recommended we not do Colombier on the weekend as it will be busier then.
