Did lots today - particularly as Matthew was really complaining about his ears and had had a very troubled night. We went to the Barbados Wildlife Reserve which has a mix of indigenous and imported animals but is known the world over for it's green monkey population. We arrived earlyish and it was hot - tropical hot (though Catherine has adjusted to the point she thinks it was just comfortable... wait until she goes home!). We paid the entrance with Cash(just) as they don't take Credit cards and went inside. You are immediately aware of how many tortoises there are... you have to be careful not to trip over them. When we were here 12 years ago I'm sure there weren't so many.. but after seeing what most of them were upto I can see why ... read more

We drove to the Animal Flower Cave and the most northly point on the island (surprisingly called North Point). This is another Geocache location so we solved the 3 puzzles we needed here. Thats 2 out of 6 on the island. The caves hadn't changed much since we were last there 12 years ago - I looked for my business card in the hut but as there were thousands couldnt find it. We went down into the caves and Christopher and Matthew swam in the rock pool. The guide showed us the "hand", the "lizard" and the "turtle". I could see the hand and the turtle but couldn't make out the lizard! My colleague Howard Tonge and his wife are also in Barbados and we ran across them here. We've agreed to go to there ... read more

It rained late last night and by early morning it was throwing it down and I mean throwing it down - so much so it was coming in through the bedroom and wetting the bed - either that or one of us had had an accident? Didnt stop us going in the pool though once we were up! As it was cooler because of the rain we decided to go to the Barbados Museum - this was also the site of a GeoCache so we covered that of at the same time (2 cannons and closed on public holidays for anyone interested..) The Museum was very interesting and covered the period from when the AmerIndians were residents of the island to the present day. As you can see from the pictures it was still raining ... read more

We were all up at a reasonable time today. So after the usual trip to the pool and breakfast we headed via the Spring Garden Highway to the South Coast and stopped at Dover. This was absolutely gorgeous with a brilliant blue sea. Hassled by the desk chair boys but we just say no thanks and they go away - We stayed for a couuple of hours then headed towards Crane Bay. We got out at Crane Bay but hunger overcame us before we got in the sea and we stopped at another Chefette or lunch - thats 2 out of 14 on the island. I think we should have our photograph taken outside all 14 now that would be sad... After lunch we came back to Bridgetown and Spring Garden Highway which was now ... read more

Everyone was awake early - we managed to stay in bed until about 6 am. and in the pool by about 5 past! We needed some food so just before 8 am. we headed to the "Super Centre" supermarket and bought a reasonable amount of food - as Catherine said this was the most British supermarket not in Britain we'd ever been too as it appears to sell Waitrose products, Tetley tea bags and Cadburys dairy milk! Back home Breakfast appeared to be Frosties, Danish pastries and the newly acquired ic-cream. Then we went to Paynes Bay and the beach - some excellent snorkelling and loads of people were swimming with turtles - in fact so many it seemed like a swarm of small boats surrounding them. As it got hotter those not wearing shirts, ... read more