Due to internet problems on board ship I gave up attempting to do a blog while on my travels so here I am almost two weeks later catching up. We glided into Barbados-no tenders needed here!
We had a tour that began in the early afternoon so we decided to go into town. There are a zillion taxis as you leave the pier area. This time we took one with some other people.
Bridgetown was a very busy town especially since our last stop had been Devil's Island. It is the capital of Barbados and the buildings above are the Parliament Buildings.
Below is a statue of one of Barbados heroes, Errol Barrow.
I liked how this guy knew how to relax!
Somehow there is always a pirate ship in the West Indies...
Barbados is divided into parishes, each with an Anglican church and this was Bridgetown's, St. Mary's Church.
After checking out the church we continued our walk back to the ship to grab an early lunch so that we could go on our tour the island on a 4 by4 vehicle and visit a wildlife reserve to visit the green monkeys whose kidneys have been used for the polio vaccine.
The trip began well as our driver drove around the island and explained highlights of the various parishes to us.
We arrived at the wildlife preserve at feeding time and you can see i was happy to immediately see turtles.
and lots of monkeys
and a peacock or two
and a very strange little animal that looked like a combination of a rabbit and a deer…apparently he was an agouti but looked bigger and moved much more slowly than the ones on Devil's Island.
Below are Brocket deer, not native to Barbados.
Neither are the caiman below. There were reptiles and snakes but I missed them in their compound completely but I did see enough animal life to make me happy.
This is a sample of the coral rock which is what basically Barbados is made from and used a great deal in buildings as well.
Here's our vehicle-please notice how open the passenger section is!
After some rum punch we proceeded around the island.
The Atlantic beaches in the north are beautiful with pounding waves but the Caribbean side is better for swimming.
The weather began to deteriorate and
the rain began pounding so that Val and I sitting in the front were busy trying to keep the plastic flap windshields down but note we were basically soaked by the end of the ride-fortunately it was warm rain!
We were supposed to go to an Azamara Amazing Evening at the Polo Grounds but we were rained out so got to do laundry instead! But we still had a pleasant evening now that we were dry!
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