Enjoyed the memories - our first visit to SBH was on a day trip catamaran from SXM in 1984. We fell in love with St. Barts while eating lobsters at Chez Francine, with our feet in the sand. Brought our son, nine months old in 1986, stayed at the old St. Barts Beach Hotel in a "french spartan" room right on the beach and have been hooked ever since.
My in-laws started going to St. Barts in the early 60's and built there in the late 70's, and they thought that our generation was ruining St. Barts, especially the Le Select crowd (Andy is nodding "yes" now). They had a saying, "Heineken ruined the Caribbean."