Thank you, Charlotte. Glad to be helpful. In June just remember it could be kinda chilly-ish in the water. Some swimming pools will be cold too. Currently, we still have issues thanks to lockdown with restaurants not being able to open at all or only being open on weekends, no staff etc. Boats aren’t necessarily running every day, so book. I can’t see much changing by June unfortunately. Prices for car hire have been crazy too. It’s usually best not to pick up a car from the airport, but right now, it’s the only place you can get one. It’s a terrible rip-off. A lot of our decent shops closed too and won’t be back until the international tourists are back. Hopefully by the end of this year we can all start living our lives again.

Kate, plenty of people swim in the nets without incident. If the sea is rough the nets may be closed, but that’s not common. Last year the nets were also closed for a while because people were stung in the nets, but mostly, they’re open and people use them. It did seem to be a very bad year for stingers last year, fingers crossed this year won’t be. Stinger season now officially starts in November, from next week the stinger nets will be in place.

The beaches are empty because so few people live here Yvan. Quite a few locals don’t even worry about stinger season and just carry on as normal if they’re fishermen or whatever. I don’t know if it’s started up here or not yet, but you’re a lot further south. It starts first in the north and moves south. Also it’s low season now, kids are in school, not many tourists. As locals, we don’t go to the beach, ever. We run on it at dawn. Otherwise we never, ever go there. Which is why I don’t know if it’s started yet or not, I haven’t been to the beach to see if the nets are out. No nets, not started yet. Once the sun is fully up we don’t even go outside. So if you see a beach with a lifeguard station and ropes for nets and nets not out, you should be good still.