Grand Case, St. Martin

We spent more time in Grand Case then anywhere else. The bay is beautiful with white sandy beach. The town is inland within walking distance from the beach, that is lined with many restaurants, most of them serving French cuisine.
Valentin treated us to a perfect meal in one of them, L'Escapade. Grand Case is a culinary center of St. Martin and comes to life after dark, people are driving from everywhere to have a meal here, and leaving convinced, that it was worth it.

To be close to the Internet on a shore we anchored in a very shallow, we had barely enough water left under our keel. But it is all sand there and touching the bottom would not have been a problem.

I thought it was rather unusual to catch large snappers in a nine feet of water. And yet I caught five of them the first night and more through the week we stayed there, all mahogany and one yellowtail.

As on most islands (but not all) public transportation is fast and inexpensive. It is a good way to see the island and meet people.
Walking is another way, and one day we stretched our legs by walking over the hill to Baie Marcel to check out the marina there and to see, weather we could sail into this rather small bay.

The scenery there is beautiful, but the beach was a bit crowded because of the hotels around it. Music was sounding from different beach bars, it was before noon and they were busy already. If you like action, that is the place to go.

Grand Case shopping mall

Nature playing tricks on us?