Video – Association Les Fruits de Mer https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:20:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.lesfruitsdemer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cropped-Les-Fruits-de-Mer-square-icon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Video – Association Les Fruits de Mer https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com 32 32 95056667 Return of the Flamingo https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/return-of-the-flamingo/ https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/return-of-the-flamingo/#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:20:29 +0000 http://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/?p=12967

After a long absence, one of the most elegant birds in the Caribbean returns to St. Martin. See the flamingos of the Orient Bay salt pond and learn the story of flamingos on St. Martin.

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Like many people living in French Quarter at the time, Elise Hyman worked in salt production in Orient Bay in the middle of the last century. She shared some memories of those days and how salt was produced at Salines d’Orient.

Les Fruits de Mer has been recording stories on St. Martin to preserve and share. If you want to share a story, please get in touch: info@lesfruitsdemer.com.

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]]> https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/a-st-martin-mystery/feed/ 0 11088 Great Salt Pond, April 2016 https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/great-salt-pond-april-2016/ https://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/great-salt-pond-april-2016/#respond Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:00:30 +0000 http://www.lesfruitsdemer.com/?p=9475 While we were shooting some video for an Endemic Animal Festival preview film we also stopped on the pondfill and captured a bit of what’s happening down a the Great Salt Pond. Here’s 20 seconds on the pond:

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