Today's travels to the Baie de Métropolitain focus on an island in the southern part of the bay, the  Île d'Azur.  Made up of two communes, Côte d'Azur and Baie de Decorah, the Île d'Azur is a vibrant, dense, but geographically small community that serves as a counterpoint to the seemingly endless sprawl of the capitol.

The commune of Côte d'Azur is well known for its focus on environmentalism, and high tech industry.  Very little manufacturing occurs in the commune, with most jobs being in software, commercial enterprise, or tourism.

The northern coast is home to the famous Aquarium de la Baie, beaches, a posh night scene, and three ferry terminals serving nearly 40,000 individuals daily.

The CBD is home to the famous tourist attraction, Tour d'Azur, which offers commanding views of the Bay, and of Des Capitales to the north.  The relatively small public/private University partnership of the Université de la Côte Azurée, usually referred to by its nickname Côaz offers programs in business and hotel management, serving around 500 graduate students in the city.

South of the CBD is the city Airport, and part of the large High-Tech park that occupies about 50% of the island.

Local industry is dominated by high end commercial office, and high-tech jobs.

The commune also consists of two coastal areas on the mainland, connected to the Island by bridges and ferry.  To the East is the semi-autonomous arrondissement of Atterrissage de l'Est.

Atterrissage de l'Est is subdivided into a north and south neighborhood, with the southern being far more wealthy and affluent, and the northern neighborhood depressed economically.

South of the Island is the semi-autonomous arrondissement of Les Doigts.

A narrow, dense, mixed income, neighborhood Les Doights is popular with middle income families and young urban professionals.  While it lacks the nightlife of the CBD, or Aquarium neighborhoods, the Ferry and Lakeland districts are home to a growing and hip fusion cuisine which mixes the traditional culinary history of the capital region with the exotic foreign flavors of the Iron Keys.

Just west of the commune of Côte d'Azur is the second half of the Island, the commune of Baie de Decorah.  Baie de Decorah consists of both the western half of the island, and the mainland bay region.  Far more industrial than the Côte d'Azur, it has less of a reputation for environmentalism, especially in the polluted south-eastern bay.

This environmental hazard so close to the Les Doights arrondissement in Côte d'Azur has been subject to a 50 year court battle.

Baie de Decorah's island arrondissements are separated by the Crête de la Ligne Médiane mountain range, a small but thankfully inactive fault line in modern times.  Known regionally as La Médiane, this arrondissement overlooks the Courbe Nord arrondissement to the northeast, and Courbe du Commerce to the southwest.  Predominantly wealthy with high levels of tourism, most inhabitants of these neighborhoods work on the island, or in the Iron Keys, Des Capitales, or Côte d'Azur and commute by ferry, creating a sharp class divide with the mainland.

The mainland is collected into a single arrondissement by the commune through an act of pure, unabashed, gerrymandering to reduce the more working class neighborhoods' impact on commune politics and elections.

Dense, urban and dirty, life can be difficult in the worst neighborhoods where crime is more common than elsewhere in the region.

Housing projects in once wealthy portions of the mainland have had considerable impact on the standard of living in the region, but provided affordable housing to the over 200,000 inhabitants of both Côte d'Azur and Baie de Decorah.