I know a lot of you are pretty stressed about travel and lodging uncertainty, but I will point out one side benefit of this situation.

It's quiet.

We're anchored in the French lagoon, and where there would normally be regular roar of jets taking off and turning south, droning of those little rhino touring dinghy boat things, whine of jetski tours, thumping music of the Lagoon Explorer day boat. There is none of this noise, and none of the constant sharp wakes of day boats and Anguilla ferries. There's even almost no dinghy traffic. A very different place.

We walked Charlie the island spaniel on Kim Sha this morning, and while some enterprising souls have put out some chairs, we had the whole beach pretty well to ourselves.

Peaceful St. Martin is a really different experience.