Marin, St. Anne, Point Salines, Depaz Distillery - Martinique

May 6 - 15

We spent a couple weeks in Martinique, our second visit to this French island, to explore some of the southern areas that our friends highly recommended.  Marin and St. Anne are absolutely beautiful and huge sailing communities.  Marin is host to all of the charter companies with amazing brand new French catamarans, so we enjoyed walking around the docks and checking out the boats.   St. Anne is just east of Marin with beautiful beaches (Point Salines), hiking trails, and a cute town with great restaurants and bars.

Here are some pictures from our time in Marin and St. Anne, arguably our favorite areas in Martinique.

Gene drinking his Leffe beer after our 24-hr crossing from Grenada

Catholic church in the town of Marin

View of the Cul-De-Sac Du Marin

This local sailing regatta took place one afternoon through our anchorage in Cul-De-Sac Du Marin.

View from the top of the hill in St. Ann overlooking the entrance to Cul-De-Sac Du Marin.

Marin Point

Beautiful church in the center of town in St. Anne.

View just off of Marin Point.  Another local regatta taking place in the background.

Shop in St. Anne that sells all sorts of musical instruments.  Gene's playing the didgeridoo. 

 Sunset in St. Anne

We spent one day at Point Salines, a beautiful beach located at the very end of St. Anne.

Day anchorage off Point Salines

Kalalau at Point Salines

This is the 4-mile coastal hiking trail that runs from St. Anne to the end of Point Salines. 

Relaxing on the beach of Point Salines

We left the southern end of Martinique after a week and sailed north to St. Pierre where we planned to spend a couple of days before heading to Dominica.

Passing Rocher du Diamant during the sail north to St. Pierre, Martinique

We spent a couple of days in St. Pierre (our second visit to this town in Martinique).  We spent one afternoon at the Depaz Distillery where you can walk through the distillery to watch the processing of the Depaz rum, and sample the rums at the end of the tour.