Another day we decided to dinghy to town and walk to Fort Napoleon, which overlooked the main bay on the island.  Again it was a hot and steamy day and we were definitely working to walk up the hills to the fort.  When we arrived, we saw everyone showing a QR code to the admissions person.  She didn’t speak English but I was able to ascertain that it was a QR code to the French Covid vaccination registry.  We didn’t think that we would need to use the QR code on our trip, so we didn’t submit our information to it.  A friendly couple was in line who spoke a little English.  They were able to translate for us and we showed our vaccination cards from the United States.  The woman accepted that and we were admitted to the fort. 

The pentagonal-shaped Fort was unique (to us) because it was perched up on the top of a hill and had a moat that went around it.  Water is at a premium in the Caribbean so we are not sure if they kept it filled or if it was just there to make the sides of the fort deeper. 

There were mostly paintings inside the forte and everything was marked in French.  While I could get the gist of the signs, it was a lot of work for me to read them and try to translate.  There were nice gardens on the grounds of the forte.  And, they also had made stone designs in their gardens.