Category Archives: Family
MJ Driving Stick
While in Guadeloupe, we had rented one of the largest cars that you could rent. It was a Chevy Captiva. As in most European vacation destinations, the car had a manual transmission. Over the course of the week, it had … Continue reading
Flyboarding
What is it like to fly like Iron-Man? Try Flyboarding. We did. While in Port Louis, MJ and I tried flyboarding for a half an hour each. The flyboard attaches to the output of a jetski via 3″ firehose. The … Continue reading
Port Louis
On Thursday, July 9th, we drove up to Port Louis. The town is on La Grande Terre island, about 45min from our resort. The beach front there was absolutely breath taking. Port Louis is a sleepy little town. Mid week … Continue reading
Le Nautilus
Tuesday, July 8th, in the afternoon we went out on the Nautilus. The Nautilus had windows all around the bottom of the boat so you could get panoramic views underwater. It was a nice relaxing afternoon. We got to go … Continue reading
Sea Trek
Tuesday, July 7th, Jill and I took a Sea Trek Adventure. Originally I was calling it SNUBA, but after getting home I found out that Sea Trek and SNUBA are different. Both are surface supplied air with an avg depth … Continue reading
Bouillante
On Wednesday, July 8th, we drove to the town of Bouillante. It is on the western side of Basse Terre island. From the town of St. Francois, where we were staying, Bouillante was about as far away as you could … Continue reading
Mallory
While MJ and Jill were wind surfing and I had the camera going, Cathy struck up a conversation with one of the locals, Mallory. He was the same age as MJ and was just accepted into University. He has his … Continue reading
Wind Surfing
On Tuesday, July 7th, Jill wanted to go wind surfing. MJ thought it was going to be to hard to learn, but since we were at the beach and Jill was going, MJ joined her. MJ of course had to … Continue reading
McDonald’s
On our way to Parc National de la Guadeloupe, MJ spotted a McDonald’s. I was quickly over ruled and forced to stop. Surprisingly the cheeseburger was really good. Apparently a lot of the ingredients are locally grown on the island. … Continue reading
Parc National de la Guadeloupe
Monday, July 6th, we visited the national park on Basse Terre island. The national park contains an active volcano, some thermal vents and the Carbet waterfalls. The Carbet waterfalls consists of three distinct falls that have drops of 410′, 360′ … Continue reading