Your St Barts - guide to Saint Barthelemy

I had yesterday a lovely swim at Gouverneur beach. Like all of St Barts’ beaches, Gouverneur was hit by the recent high seas. But for some reason, I find that the beach was improved as a result. If you have been to Gouverneur, you know that the beach is located in a beautiful private cove, [...]

Wow! Has St Barts Island seen some major celebrity activity lately!!  The Christmas/New Year holiday was especially busy given the fact that  there was a super-exclusive party aboard Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Octopus, a 414 foot private yacht that takes the prize as the 6th largest, private yacht, in the world.  Who was there? How [...]

A new swimwear line recently launched: LaLangosta N.A. – and where did it get tons of free publicity?  Right here on a St Barts beach when Catherine Zeta-Jones donned one in yellow.              LaLangosta creates high-end, one-of-a-kind swimwear that is intended for a discerning audience.  Each suit is hand-beaded, and therefore, it can be said that [...]

St Barts beaches are some of the cleanest in the Carribean!  But, just like every town, we do have a few pieces of  trash that need to be picked up – which is exactly what American John McGinn and his seven friends did. Being regular visitors of the island, they noticed trash washing up on [...]

St Barts Beach :: St Jeans Beach Revitalization Project Photo Courtesy of :: stjeanbay.blogspot.com After two major hurricanes, Luis and Lenny, hit the St Barts Beaches, there is one side of St Jeans Beach that has never fully recovered.  The problem has been exasperated by hotel owners along the beach that have built stone walls [...]

St Barts Beach :: Gouverneur Beach :: Photo Courtesy of didierbeck This St Barts Beach is by far my favorite on the entire island.  It is virtually unspoiled and it’s long white beach seems to stretch endlessly.  There is no building on this beach, so when you go there, you can expect a feeling of [...]

YouTube user NuYawka (New-Yorker for all of you who are not familiar with the accent) recently took a trip to the island and visited many a St Bart Beach I’m sure.  However, he seems quite fond of Saline Beach, and he posted this great video about the slightly treacherous walk approaching the beach. I discussed [...]

We’ve talked a lot about the beaches of St Barts; but this St Barts Beach, the Beach of Public, is a little different. All day long, especially during the high season, cars make the trek down the down the hill above the St Jean airport strip, called La Tourmente, to make it in to our [...]

The mythical St Barts beach is a long beach, with no buildings in site; great sand to sink your toes in, beautiful, clear water to swim in…..you couldn’t ask for a better beach to lounge around on. To got there, drive along the "Salines," which is the spot where islanders would harvest sea salt, one of [...]

Celebrities like St Barts, St Barts like fashion, St Barts has breat beaches …. so it is only natural that quite a few famous ads have been shot in St Barts. Here, you will have a long glimpse of renowned female models such as Gisele Bundchen and Alessandra Ambrosio being photographed in St Barts. The [...]