Note: This is a guest post from our St. Martin friend Mark Yokoyama: co-founder of the world’s first Extreme Shallow Snorkeling Team, an avid photographer, passionate naturalist, and author of The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin. This is Mark’s first guest post for Uncommon Caribbean, so please make him feel welcome…
On the island of Saint Martin, as on most Caribbean islands, there are a variety of ruins. The most celebrated are the old forts, like Fort Louis overlooking Marigot. Numerous sugar mills and plantations, some now hidden in the forests, are architectural reminders of the island’s colonial past. There are other ruins, though, that take us to the not-so-distant past, specifically the 1995 hurricane season that brought Hurricane Luis.