Finding Moksha: Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz a tower.

Saint-Martin, Sint Maarten, whatever you want to call it, it's a pretty small place. I thought at the start of the year when I was in Samoa that I would never beat my record of going around a whole country in one day. Since then I have done it with ease a couple of times, namely Monaco and Vatican City. However a few days ago I set a new PB, driving around two countries within 4 hours, including doing surf checks and having breakfast! It does help however, that this lump of land is the smallest piece of rock in the world that is shared by two countries. Saint-Martin to the north is French, and Sint Maarten in the south is Dutch.

Probably the most well known thing about this place is the Princess Juliana Airport, which if you Youtube it, you will straight away be familiar with (or just look below I guess?). We spent a fair chunk of time at the beach, and conveniently at the Sunset Bar which benefits like a parasite due to its proximity to both beach and runway.

It really is a bucket list type of thing hanging here and seeing the jets come in, sometimes no more than 15m above your head. However "Surfing the Fence" is the highlight. This is where you stand on guardrail, hold the fence, and get blasted by the jets as the planes are taking off, sometimes no more than 30m away! It's all pretty good fun, and the pilots always send a little wave to the crowd as they are taxiing into position, however sometimes it does get full on and there is always someone losing sunglasses into the water. One "wave" that I rode with a bunch of swedish lads even drew blood due to rock on the runway, but it was well worth it, especially after a number of Pina Colada's!

Anyway see below for some visuals of the activities of this island.

I did try and float a few vids on here that I took, but it didn't work, maybe at a later date, but don't hold your breath.

Great Balls of Fire!