We
arrived at Maho Beach at 1:30, and had about an hour to spend. This beach sits right at the end of the
runway for St. Martin’s international airport. You can get some amazing views and take some awesome photos
and video as the planes approach and land directly over your head.
Also,
when planes take off headed away from the beach, their jet blast topples
anything on the beach and creates a sand storm. You can see this if you search Maho Beach on YouTube.
People
can get pretty stupid brave out there. There is a video of a girl holding on to the chain link
fence during a departure and getting blown across the road, hitting her head on
concrete. I hope she’s ok.
There
is a restaurant called Sunset Bar & Grill
right to the side of the beach.
Here is the surfboard with arrival times of the planes.
The
only big one left to come in while we were there was the American Airlines at
1:55pm.
Here
she comes!
Our
camera wasn’t really cooperating, but here she still comes!
Here
she is!
And
the closest shot!
Oops. Operator error. Or dude in the
way. We missed our “shot”.
Here,
you can see a portion of the beach, with the road to the right, fence to the
right of that, and runway directly behind the fence.
Here
comes another plane.
Time
for the camera operator to redeem himself.
Closer.
Anyone
waiting on a delivery?
Of
note, at Sunset Bar & Grill, “topless women drink free”. And there were indeed topless women at
the bar. So if you’re taking
children, or are easily offended, you’ll need to know this.
Finally,
here is a photo of Chris and me with Sexy (and a guy who had had a little death
rum punch).
Does Sexy live up to his name(tag)?
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