The Insiders' Guide to St. Barths: Saba stay

We stayed a few days on Saba at the Gate House after our week on St. Barts. It is a special place due to the warmth, helpfulness, food and wine of Lyliane and Michel Job.

The French cooking by Michel is exceptional and the wine list assembled by Lyliane wins a Wine Spectator award every year. Furthermore, because they have a vacuum machine, they can serve many of their wines by the glass.

Of course, most people go to Saba for the exceptional diving. We saw sharks on the deep seamount (Pinnacles) as well as unusual corals.

Also a feathery yellow fish I hadn't seen before.

The hiking was amazing as well. Very, very steep in all directions. You felt like King Kong was filmed here

and, apparently, some of the original was filmed in Saba but I thought of the recent remake where King Kong was battling Pterodactyls.

The nearby town of Windwardside is adorable.

Everyone we met was extremely friendly and helpful as you might expect on a small island with only 1200 inhabitants.

A memorable experience is the landing at the world's shortest commercial runway on the only flat spot on this steep island.

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