Yesterday was one of those really special days that we will always remember from our sailing adventures.  We went into town (St. Louis) around 8a to rent a scooter.  We learned that the scooter rental agencies mostly worked on days when the ferries were running to and from Marie Galante.  We were lucky and rented on one of those days.  After some back and forth in my broken French and the merchant’s limited English, I was able to convince him to rent us a scooter even though Steve’s driver’s license didn’t have a motorcycle certification on it. 

We started driving counter-clockwise around the island, based on our new friends’ recommendation.  Marie Galante’s roads are not crowded with cars and have few potholes, so it was quite easy to sightsee via a scooter.  The road signage is also fantastic.  We were able to meander around any road that we wanted and found signs pointing into the direction of different attractions and cities. 

We visited two historic sugarcane plantations, (L’Habitation Roussel-Trianon and L’Habitation Murat) each with the ruins of a windmill.  Their grounds were absolutely gorgeous and meticulously maintained.  While the signs were only in French, we were able to translate enough to get the gist of how the site ran when processing sugarcane.