For the oldtimers:

After staying at the old Caravanserai for our first 2 or 3 trips to St. Martin, we switched to the Dawn Beach Hotel for a couple of stays. Here are a few pictures of the area from that time up to the destruction of Dawn Beach itself. We had seen the area earlier – like 1977.



Not much different in ‘79.



This is the old Oyster Pond hotel – long before the pond was upgraded to a bay. I don’t think we were ever inside.

1981 was our first stay at Dawn Beach.






We repeated in ’83.
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By 1986 we were staying at GCBC, but Dawn Beach seemed the same except for new roofs.
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Oyster Pond was getting busier in ‘89
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and ’94.
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Luis wrecked the hotel on’95. This is a result still in 1997.
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Oyster Pond was getting developed in 1998,
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and moreso in 2000.
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Scavenger’s beach bar was a favorite of ours. Marla, who owned the shop at GCBC cooked. Chairmon rented the chairs. These are from 1991.
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In 2005 clearing for what became the Westin began to violate whatever environmental rules St. Martin had. Don’t know why the last little palm tree was still surviving.
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The other side of Scavenger’s was still the same.
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We have nothing later.