Today was all about Bathsheba. No, not the 'Bathsheba' in the Old Testament, but rather a special place on the east coast of Barbados. Before the trip, we had seen a picture of a massive mushroom-looking boulder and decided we wanted to see it up close and personal! So that was our mission today.
Up at 7:30AM, breakfast in the business lounge, out on the beach by 9AM. The waves were very high today, so much so that the lifeguard ordered everyone out of the water at one point. Shortly past noon, we packed up at the beach and explored a small fort next to the hotel at Needham's Point.
Canon at Needham's Point
At 12:30, we hopped in a cab to the Fairfield Street Bus Station, where we got a Barbados Transit bus to the east coast. Destination: Bathsheba and its amazing boulder formations. The bus route cut right through the island (see map below), giving us a really good sense of the country and the agriculture sector.
Not sure what these are, but these "feathery vegetation thingies" dot the countryside.
Sugar cane is a very prolific product all over the island.
As we neared the east coast (the "Atlantic Coast" as they call it here), the terrain became very mountainous and rugged, dotted with orchards of banana trees. Suddenly, the coast came into view and the bus trundled down a rickety road to Bathsheba Park. And there before us was the massive mushroom boulder we had seen back home in a brochure!
Mushroom rock at Bathsheba Park
But the beauty extended beyond the mushroom boulder. The rugged coastline has many amazing rock formations. The pictures below attempt to give you an idea.
Rugged, boulder-strewn coastline at Bathsheba
The Barbados Independence Pro and Soup Bowl Surfing Competition was underway at Bathsheba today, so we took in a bit of that.
Competitor in the Barbados Independence Pro and Soup Bowl Surfing Competition
LOL! Sign says it all.
We were ready to jump on the 3PM bus back to Bridgetown, but it was late arriving, and then it kept stopping to pick up school kids. We were soon sardined in a rickety bus with what seemed like a zillion kids, and then found ourselves in horrible end-of-day traffic as we neared the city. What should have taken 45 minutes, took two hours to get back to the hotel.
We wound down with hors d'oeuvres in the business lounge at sunset, and then walked down the street to the Radisson Hotel for a curry dinner on a pier extending over the clear waters of Carlisle Bay.
And that's the type of day it has been for us in Barbados! Good night.
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