Martinique
2010

Rick traveled to four Caribbean islands as team leader for a Rotary Group Study Exchange

Saint Pierre with the Pelee volcano in background

Martinique, an overseas department (département d’outre-mer ) of France - a great juxtaposition of Europe and the Caribbean

Fort de France - the capital of the department

Paris or the Caribbean?

Former Palace of Justice, now a community center

Saint Louis Cathedral, Fort de France

Bougainvilla

Fishing boats at Le François

Fishing charters at Le François

Le François

On a catamaran from Le François

Under sail

A desert island off Le François

On the catamaran with three members of the Fort de France Rotaract club

Rotaractors

Sailing off the east coast of Martinique

Islands off the east coast

The water is that color...

Towards the Atlantic - choppier water

The catamaran at anchor

West coast of Martinique at Le Carbet - the Columbus landing site
Montagne Pelee volcano in the background

Montagne Pelee

Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre

North of Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre looking towards Montagne Pelee

The Depaz rum distillery, Saint Pierre

Cane fields

Cane being loaded into the shredder

Juice (vesou) from shredded cane

Rum barrels

Cane deliveries

Cane shredder

Juice fermenters

Time for a sample

Bougainvilla

Fountain in Saint Pierre

Mount Pelee from Saint Pierre - it destroyed the town in 1902

Rotary Club of Saint Pierre project - one of eight murals depicting the history of slavery in Martinique
This panel depicts capture in Africa

This panel depicts a slave uprising

This panel depicts the emancipation in 1849

Le Carbet

The GSE team in the water at Le Carbet near the Columbus landing site of June 1502

Typically French city of Case Pilote

Case Pilote

The team members in Bateliere

Steel drums

Sunset at Bateliere