We got up at 5:45 and started to pack for tomorrow. We went to Marigot and visited the travel bureau to get a new map (our other one was hashed from so much use). We caught a bus to Baie Nettle. We walked out to Point Nuff, then went snorkeling at Baie Rouge. It was phenomenal! There were caves and caverns underwater right off shore. We saw squid and hundreds of large tropical fish. We snorkeled to a beach that you had to swim to around a craggy point, and played on that beach, and then we swam through a cave to a private little beach that had shear cliffs all around it. We were the only ones there and we felt like we were on our own little island. Michael said that he felt like Robinson Caruso. We played there quite a while ~ it was so pleasant and the nicest beach we had been to on the island. We snorkeled back through the cave ~ you had to swim fast and shallow because the tide was pushing you against the walls and rocks under water. We went back to Baie Rouge and ate some lunch. While we ate, a lizard came and begged for food. Michael tossed him a scrap of bread and off he went. It was only a couple of minutes and he was back begging for more.
We then caught a bus to Phillipsburg and went shopping at a little shop we had seen earlier to buy some souveniers. We then took a bus to Orient Bay for a last visit. Our bus driver was only supposed to go as far as the French Quarter, but he took us all the way in to the beach. The weather that day was perfect. It was overcast but not raining, and there was a slight wind. We snorkeled out to the raft and saw a stingray and some fish, then rested for quite a while on the raft just enjoying the view and the feel of the waves. We swam back in to the beach and just walked up and down the beach for a long time because we were saying goodbye and we didn’t want to leave. The sky had turned gray with clouds from a storm coming in, which provided a beautiful contrast between the aquamarine water and the dark gray of the clouds. We finally walked down to Cocoa Bay and came home just at sunset.
The sun was setting, and it was the first sunset we had seen with color. We went to our beach and flew both our kites for the last time. Mine went out really fast over the ocean because there was so much wind and used up all the string. I couldn’t get it to come back in, so Michael traded me kites. I pulled his in, and then the two of us had to forcefully work together to pull in the second one! There is always so much wind on the shore, we are thinking that having windmills as a power source is an overlooked resource on the island. We ate dinner on the lanai, and then finished packing for our flight on Friday.