Exploring Guadeloupe

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April 29th 2012

Published: April 29th 2012

April 13 - April 24, 2012 - Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is another one of the French islands located in the Caribbean. This one definitely has a different feel from the others we have visited, at least as seen from Pointe a Pitre. It still is French, however, the look and the feel of the area has a mixture of French and Creole culture and architecture. One of the most noticeable is language. When on M... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Janice Waller

s v Tsamaya

Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info

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Our Lunch Companion

This “beggar” sat next to us and entertained us while we were having our picnic lunch.

Growing in the Wild

It is always amazing to see these exotic plants that you see in florist shops growing out in the wild in their natural state.

Fiddlehead Anyone?

This fiddle head is actually located about 10 feet above our heads! Bob always says it is like walking through the dinosaur feeding grounds.

Solar WCs?

We found these toilets at the park quite interesting in that the ceiling was covered with solar panels.

Even these grow big here

On our walk to the supermarket we spotted this “guy” on one of the branches. It definitely was quite large as you can see here. Any entomologist want to help on this one?

Crabs Anyone?

Anyone for crabs? This guy has a bundle tied together ready for you to buy.

Street Vendors

Street vendors with a variety of wares to sell. This one happens to have flowers and bananas.

Biking Is Popular

Bicycle riding seems to be quite a popular sport here as we passed many groups of people biking.

McD is here too!

Is there no escape anywhere??

Arizona Cafe

Nothing like coming to Guadeloupe to eat at the Arizona Cafe. Decor was complete with license plates, Frank Sinatra picture & old pepsi signs.

Grand Etang

The Grand Etang Lake is located in one of their national parks which sits at a height of 400 meters (1,312 feet).

Fern Tree??

Hopefully you can get an idea that this fern is as tall as the surrounding trees in the rainforest. Everything seems to grow in extra-large size here.

More of those large leaves!

Just another one of the giant plants – it definitely makes you feel very small walking here.

Excellent Park Maintenance

The park does a great job of keeping up their trails and making it easy access for the occasional hiker with the installation of these stairs and stone walkways. Even with the moisture, nothing was slippery for walking

Another View

We stopped and couldn’t resist taking a photo from this church yard looking out over to Montserrat.

We couldn't stop taking photos

The scenery was beautiful no matter where you stopped and looked while touring around the island

sitting by the streams

This fancy crab was one of many we saw along the edges of the streams.

The mist rolls in

The mountain tops are many times covered in mist as this one is starting to disappear now.

Very lush foliage

The walk to the waterfalls as you can see was through very lush vegetation.

Caught the Hummingbird

We kept seeing this hummingbird and were happy to capture him on film – not the best but we feel lucky to get him at all! Unfortunately you can’t really see the vibrant iridescent green color.

The 2nd Waterfall

We were able to walk in to see the 2nd of 3 waterfalls within the park. The other two were not accessible due to high water damage. This falls is 110 meters (360.8 feet) tall and is at an altitude of 711 meters (2,332 feet)

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