Melbourne Inn Christ Church

... people gyrated (I suppose it was dancing?) in colourful costumes – or rather accessories! All to celebrate the end of the sugar cane harvest and the success of the rum production!

On one day we hired a car and explored the island – marvelling at the ferocious seas of the Atlantic at Animal Flower caves and Bathsheba compared to our gently lapping, clear, warm, blue waters on the west coast ...

... his hardest to get me on a plane, however my not acting fast enough led to a very good ticket for $500US slipping away. So I pulled some strings, and I'm now going to Toronto direct on Wednesday I'm bummed out like mad that I can't go to NYC and possibly not even Detroit, but I guess it just happens sometimes. Next time I guess.. But at least now I can go to Canada! Wednesday can't come fast enough.

This is my third day trying to get out of the island on standby. I was 38/47 on the list earlier. So many families of staff members using their tickets for holiday.. It's insanity. It seems to be impossible to get out of the Caribbean right now! Hopefully I'll figure out something soon, otherwise I may have to cancel parts of my itinerary.. :(

... they were a kind of eel maybe?

Anyway, the dive was awesome, especially considering there were no 8 mm wetsuits involved, but i cannot help thinking that diving isn't my favorite activity in the world. Don't get me wrong, the manta dive in Hawaii was one of the coolest things i've ever seen in my life, but I don't know -- it's a lot of overhead, and there's quite a lot of discomfort (seasickness, headaches, tummy aches, wet and sticky salty ...

... I was a little bit disappointed that the tour did not stopped here. I would have like to.

We then proceeded to St. John's Church which is perched 800 feet above the Atlantic ocean. Here, we got off the bus and enjoyed our tour inside as well as outside the church. It was amazing. From the back of the church, a magnificent view of the blue azure ocean could be seen. It was absolutely breathtaking.

There were several tombs ...

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"Welcome to Barbados!" as the sign said, "Island where rich tropical fields meet a glistering azure sea". Quite true! As the ship made its way through the channel, the view of the island was spectacular!!.

Barbados is 270 miles from the coast of Venezuela. The island is really small in size being 14 by 21 miles. The population however, is 279,000 and the capital is Bridgeport.

Barbados, Barbados momentsintime

... lapped over to daywatches. We would wake up every 3 hours to take the wheel (not that we could even sleep properly). After a while, the routine felt so robotic. Wake up, Steer, Sleep, etc. The ordeal lasted about 4 days. When the winds had calmed down, we started catching fishes, though not without having to lose 20 odd lures before. Big tunas, Dolphin fishes, and other big fishes would jump before our eyes, as if mocking at our ridiculously ...

... a stop to swim out to shore and relax for a little while on one of the many beautiful Barbados beaches. The waters were quite calm and it wasn't that difficult to swim to the shore. However, there were quite a few jagged stones near the shore which were a bit painful to step on. Shea and I just walked along the shore admiring the beautiful scenery and dreaming of what it would be like to own one of these beach front homes. After about 20 minutes ...

... i'm flunking out. i still love spanish and poetry; those two classes are fun and interesting, have good teachers, and make me glad to go to class. i hate my other two classes, the upper division linguistics classes. in one of them, we ended lecture like three weeks ago, so i love that class now that i never have to go anymore. the other class is just sort of dull. plus those are the only two classes in which i have to write papers, so that probably contributes to my ...

... a cool way to expand my horizons. the only bad thing about the class is that it meets on thursday mornings, so i no longer have four day weekends every weekend. in all honesty, though, i think that's better: i can't see much good coming out of having four days all to myself per week. i wouldn't get anything done, ever. three day weekends ought to suffice. yesterday i didn't have any class because of the aforementioned cancellations. instead, i walked with a group of kids to the ...