I have no horse in this race but well put, Bob, and I'm sure you're right as to who did the complaining and why.

I haven't spoken to a lot of French families regarding their viewpoints on this but I have spoken to many West Indian Dutch and Ive been told time and again many of them take great exception to the practice of public nudity and particularly the attitude that it can be done anywhere if it can be gotten away with. We have an island acquaintance who felt forced to stop going to Happy Bay with his family, a place they'd enjoyed for generations, because he didn't feel comfortable bringing his family there and putting up with the antics they'd witnessed too many times over the recent years since it's more widespread discovery.

We don't always like the rules but we still have to respect and play by them. As visitors, it's not up to us to decide what is and what isn't acceptable or tolerated but to appreciate what we have and enjoy it as we can.

As one who knew Orient 'back in the day........' that would be the day when there was no development at all, few people to be seen and difficult roads to navigate to find and get to the area in the first place, sometimes you just have to accept that time brings change, and sometimes lots of it, so appreciate and enjoy what you have while you have it. And if the changes make the island intolerable or unenjoyable for your personal comfort zone, only you can make the choice to move on, but I feel pretty comfortable in saying for each and every one of us who decides to move on down the road, there will be five more coming to take our places. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />