Last fall, I took a trip to St. Lucia (island nation in the Caribbean). During my week there, I took a day trip to Martinique (next island to north, an overseas part of France) and was rewarded with this beauty. And then punished with a boat ride that puts all the turbulence I’ve encountered on every plane ride in my lifetime put together to shame. As we used to say when I lived in Minnesota, “uff da.”