Blogs from Antigua & Barbuda, Central America Caribbean - page 11

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Waking up on our first morning aboard, we hadn’t even had time to digest our first banquet, let alone our thoughts, and we were already at our first destination. The previous few nights roughing it in a tent contrasted so markedly with the onslaught of rich food and warm fluffy duvets that we emerged a little later than planned from our air-conditioned cabin, sauntering out into the full glare of the midday sun and down one of the many boardwalks serving the cruise ships that towered overhead, toward a brightly-colored parody of colonial Caribbean architecture. Life quayside at St John’s, Antigua, gives just enough of a feeling you’re exploring somewhere new to make it seem adventurous, when in reality you’re captive in a one-stop shopping mall, complete with diamond shops and casinos. No surprise then, that ... read more
St. John's
Ibiza?
Backpackers undercover


I’m getting into the final stretch of my contract now. Still a good chunk of time left, but the end is in sight and soon I’ll be visiting ports for the last times. So this week, I’ve made a point to get out in the ports every day to see and do things. While on the Destiny, I went snorkeling and zip-lining in Antigua, but I hadn’t really seen much of the island itself. Thanks to friends in the Shore Ex department, I got onto a sightseeing and historical tour of the island: “the best of Antigua”. We had a great guide who covered all the usual history . . . the island’s discovery by Christopher Columbus, it’s part in the sugar industry, the battles for the island (because of the sugar) between the British and ... read more
At Block House
Down to the Sea
View from Shirley Heights


Resume de nos vacances mars 2008. Pendant q'on prend notre petit biere dans sud , les gens du quebec prends le chocolat chaud entre deux pelletes de neige. ... read more
frere tock est sa gang
La grande bouffe


Grandma was eaten by a shark Dad, by a killer whale And my baby brother got slurped up By a rather hungry sea snail Andrea Shavick So you think you know your sharks: scary, horrible, teeth producing machines, all set to attack! Well according to National Geographic, more humans get bitten by people from New York each year than by sharks. So it’s time to learn a bit more about these amazing creatures and realise that sharks tend to leave us alone, as long as we leave them alone. Don’t get me wrong, sharks are efficient hunting machines, but they would much rather chomp down a tasty fish or crab than chase after you or me. So how do they hunt, well they have an amazing array of fine-tuned senses at their “fin-tips”. They can sense ... read more
Funny shaped tail!
Shark cousins - the ray.  This one will give you an electric shock if you touch it.


Oh how I wish I was a fish to swim in the deep blue sea. I would swim up and down and all around in laps of two or three. There would be no rules to follow,all fun down here. On land rules are trouble,a real pain in the rear. K.B. Butler Whenever you swim in the Caribbean, whether it is over the reef, in amongst the dark sunken roots of mangrove trees, or above sparkling white sands, you are sure to spot a fish or two darting and diving, making the most of the three dimensional wonderland. Bony fish, like the sort you eat by the seaside in your fish and chips, are a particularly colourful component of the reef. Some are brightly painted to attract a mate, whereas others warn of their poisonous spines. ... read more
Scorpionfish - beware his spines!
Colourful fish - a hamlet
Moray Eel gulping down water bursting with oxygen


We are still in Barbuda, loved it!!! Talk about speechless, it is one of those times. A wow! And you know there are not too many times I have been speechless. We started our day with Cayuga picking us up, went to beach. We had a local tour of the "Black Frigate Birds". We learned to tell the male from females, the young ones, etc. I got pictures! The males they have this mating call and their chest swells up in red balloon. The females after mating, they feed the males and the young. The males leave in or around May 1 for the Yucatan or Argentina. There is a population of 19000 birds here. The USA comes down once a year to monitor them. The young ones are white turning to black within 2 years, ... read more
Our group
Hotel
Frigate bird


Today is Pete's birthday. I made him a Key Lime Pie a Lo Belliard. We played dominoes with Perseverance and Non Linear last night on Perseverance. Non Linear leaving this afternoon for Deep Bay, a few miles North. We are staying put here till Tuesday, then we will go for Barbuda. The wind is finally going down. We are waiting for the seas to moderate some more. Looks like Tuesday through next Sunday we will be traveling. 1 island at a time.... read more


We arrived in Antigua 8 days ago. Weather is not good. Pin down again. In Antigua you can get anything you want, 1st rate grocery stores!! Like in the USA. All for a price of course. ... read more


No, we did not go AWOL, we just haven't had time to write...We are in Fallsmouth, Antigua. Long story, but we got up at 0400 Monday morning to traverse the Riviere Salee, the salt water marshes that divide Guadaloupe in to 2 islands. There are 2 bridges, the North bridge opens at 0430 and 0530, that's it. The South bridge opens at 0500, with South bound traffic having right of way. There were 3 of us sitting there in close proximity. The 1st was a catamaran professionally Captain by a local. And then 2 of us cruisers, the other being a French one. At 0615 we gave up, bridge did not open. The Captain was really upset cause he was on a time frame. We 1st thought to put dinghy down in Pointe Pitre, go into ... read more


Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish after an icon in Seville Cathedral - the "Santa Maria de la Antigua" — St. Mary of the Old Cathedral. The name Waladli comes from the indigenous inhabitants and is thought to mean approximately "our own". The island's circumferance is roughly 87 kilometres (54 miles) and its area 281 kilometres2 (108 square miles). The economy is mainly reliant on tourism, with the agricultural sector serving the domestic ... read more
Antigua - Mand D Overlooking English Harbour
Antigua- English Harbour
Antigua - M and D at English Harbour




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