Various Beaches

Lots of Beaches

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	Baie aux Prunes - a small and quiet beach out on the SW tip of the island. It looked like it had some decent snorkelling, and we saw some locals spear fishing off the rocky point for rock lobster and fish.
	Baie Longue - We never actually swam on this beach, just wandered down there for a quick look near our last day. It's a great looking beach, very quiet and empty on the day we were there. Maybe next time.
	Orient Beach - This is the famous "clothing optional" beach, perhaps one of the best known in the whole Caribbean. Being "low season" there were not many people there and we had a large stretch of the centre of the beach almost entirely to ourselves. We came here on our first day traveling around the island and we could not resist the urge for a swim.
	Maho Bay / Sunset Beach - This beach is right at the end of the main runway for the airport and there is a sign telling you to be careful when planes are landing or taking off because the jet wash might knock you over. It's not a huge beach, but it does have a great view of where the sun normally sets. Most days we were there came with sunsets that looked like this - lots of cloud around the horizon. You don't actually see the sun set, but the sky gets pretty dramatic.
	Cupecoy Beach - Our resort was on this beach, though there wasn't much sand to speak of righth in front of the resort. There was a bit of an unofficial walking path along the edge of the cliffs. We did finally find this one nice stretch of sand in front of the property just next to ours and had a great swim in the waves. The shots of the beach looking in at the shore from the water were taken during the sunset cruise that we took. Nice to get the other perspective on what the resort looks like and to see just where there is, or is not, any sand.
	Mullet Bay - Never swam here, just sailed past on the sunset cruise. It is a great long sandy beach though, close to our resort, but you have to walk across the golf course to get to it.
	Dawn Beach - We were only here when we stopped at the Westin for dinner. But it looked like an excellent beach and, given the East Coast location, we knew where it got its name.
	Great Bay / Philipsburg Beach - The cruise ships dock here in Philipsburg and it seems likely that many people from the cruise just shop on Front street and spend the day on this beach.
?	Baie Rouge - We really liked this beach. This is where we went snorkeling one afternoon. There was a great cave / break in the rock that you could swim into and through. But we didn't have our cameras with us that day - didn't feel safe leaving them on the beach while we snorkeled. Too bad.