Some Enchanted Evening - A pictorial review of the Enchanted Princess in the Southern Caribbean

[scubacruiserx2]

Before we disembark know that it is a bit of a process from where we are .

 

 

As independent travelers our goal is the front gate ASAP where we can meet our guide and there are lots of white roofed taxis that you can rent . Barbados and the cruise lines has placed a bit of an obstacle course ( a tourist trap ) in between . It's not a private one owned by Carnival or Disney but more of a co-operative between the cruise line , port and local authorities .

 

 

We tried to walk to the left toward the gate but were not permitted to do so and we were steered to the right and to follow the people into the long building .

 

 

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Upon entering the mall we had an eye scan for a temperature check and you have to wash your hands . Then you are free to wander the length of the mall until you reach the end where it U-turns and you walk the length of the mall in the opposite direction . At this point you can exit outside under a tin roof where the cruise's tours are waiting and other people are selling tours at the point of purchase .

 

 

 

It was still a couple of blocks to walk past the taxis and finally the port's gate and freedom

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2022 by scubacruiserx2

[scubacruiserx2]

We met Charmaine and began heading North . Barbados is 21 miles long and about 14 miles wide at it's widest point .

 

 

We stopped for a look at a flock of Barbados Black Belly Sheep .

 

 

Animal Flower Cave

 

 

 

 

 

Pat looking down the cave

 

 

 

 

 

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[scubacruiserx2]

We had stopped at a little park before we were at the North shore 

 

Surf lessons

 

 

Tsunami evacuation instructions

 

 

The Grey Fox

 

 

A Strawberry colored alarm clock

 

 

 

 

On the North shore Charmaine had home made Conkies that were delicious

https://barbados.org/barbados-recipes-conkies.htm#.YiTSW-jMJ0E

 

Sargasso on the rocks

 

 

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The Saint Nicholas Steam Train

 

 

 

A view from Cherry Tree Hill to the Atlantic Ocean

 

 

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Break for lunch

 

 

 

 

Fried Flying Fish and sweet potato fries

 

 

Fried Flying Fish and macaroni pie

 

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Bathsheba Surfing beach is a beautiful but dangerous beach . This is the closest that any Caribbean Island is to Europe .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vBdwfjsFY

 

 

Compare the rock's size to Pat

 

 

https://travel.usnews.com/Barbados/Things_To_Do/Bathsheba_Beach_63267/

 

A professional surfer from here lost his life here surfing Hurricane waves at about the same age that I began surfing seriously 

 

 

https://people.com/human-interest/zander-venezia-surfer-dead-hurricane-irma/

 

 

 

 

These are the kinds of beaches that we love and respect

 

 

 

 

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When we began having a family I quit surfing and 10 years ago Pat got me a day pass for surfing in Disney's wave pool for my 60th birthday .

 

 

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Aft views 

 

 

A couple of the aft corners have an overhang to give some sun and weather protection . We had the upper one Port side on the Baja . The other one is 2 decks down on the Dolphin which is the cruise that we booked on the February the 28th and is currently at Barbados .

 

 

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At sail away we didn't have much sunset but we did have a full moon

 

 

 

 

It was Valentine's Day and we had the Wine taster's Dinner that evening but we will have to wait until tomorrow for that as it's dinner time here .

 

 

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The Wine Makers Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A photo of the table in the morning before being set

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by scubacruiserx2

[scubacruiserx2]

We were a couple of hours late leaving port as a couple of people were disembarked for medical reasons .

 

 

 

Dinner was very good and so was Charmaine as a guide and we would recommend both

 

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[Lance1224]

Wonderful pictures. Did you ever find out who was the most traveled passenger? 

 

Lance1224 (CTGirl DH)

[scubacruiserx2]

4 hours ago, Lance1224 said:

Wonderful pictures. Did you ever find out who was the most traveled passenger? 

 

Lance1224 (CTGirl DH)

 

Thank you . No we didn't but we weren't looking either .

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Sailing into Saint Kitts with the sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J.B . 's French Toast

 

 

 

After breakfast we were engaged in a game of Tug -O- War and were being pulled backwards into a strong wind by a single tug with a single rope . It was going to be an interesting day .

 

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by scubacruiserx2

[busterfla]

Lion fish is a very good "white" fish. Many restaurants in South Florida are serving it. A win-win for us, great fish, remove a non-native fish that is crowding out the reefs. 

 

The quills are the dangerous part of the fish. Don't try to handle them without proper training. Most are caught here by spear gun

[scubacruiserx2]

43 minutes ago, busterfla said:

Lion fish is a very good "white" fish. Many restaurants in South Florida are serving it. A win-win for us, great fish, remove a non-native fish that is crowding out the reefs. 

 

The quills are the dangerous part of the fish. Don't try to handle them without proper training. Most are caught here by spear gun

 

Thanks . We have been enjoying Lionfish for a long time at Kondesa Restaurant in Cozumel .

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g150809-d2005150-r177677492-Kondesa_Restaurant-Cozumel_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

 

We stick to lobster diving and photos and leave the Lionfish hunting to others .

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We were running a couple of hours late leaving Barbados and so we Emailed our next guide to let her know that  we may be late . We were able to make up an hour and a half and so we were only 1/2 hour late .

 

 

Preparing to go ashore .

 

 

 

Tours were sold on shore

 

 

 

We asked people here if they knew Annie and they said that the man holding a license plate was her husband . We talked to Him and asked him to call her and she told him to tell us to sit down on a bench and wait for her . Annie was conducting business and so we needed to wait until she was ready for us .

 

 

  When she did have time for us she walked us to a corner to wait for her while she got her car to pick us up . Wash hands and feet check , wear mask the whole time inside and out double check . Are we ready ?

 

 

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When we got in the van we requested to begin in the East to take advantage of the light for photos . Annie said that the ring road around the island is one way and that we had to go that way . When I asked if that meant that we couldn't go East she said that we could go East . I asked her once again if we could begin in the East with the sun at our backs for photography and she said that we couldn't because she doesn't control the sun .

 

  She began her tour showing the English influence here .

 

 

The English oiled and sold African slaves in the park that we drove by

 

 

We stopped on the road to look at the bird tree .

 

 

Annie told us that the birds go to work in the morning and come back in the evening unless a Hurricane was coming . A drive by of the Carib Brewery .

 

 

 

 

Annie touched a little on the Indentured Irish who were forced under Cromwell to be sent to the Caribbean against their will . This was before African slavery began .

 

 

 

 

What would an Irish person do with 400 pounds of sugar ? I did mention that my wife was of Irish ancestry .

 

A drive by of a medical and a veterinary schools

 

 

 

 

This was followed by another drive by , this time a large Chinese dormitory under construction . We were told that they maintain a strong relationships with China , Cuba and Venezuela .

 

 

 

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Annie suggested that we get out and look at the ledge here as it was very steep . It was a nice photo with the light at my back .

 

 

She told us that a couple of men had fallen to their death from here after having had adulterous affairs . Did I mention that she had 2 previous husbands ?

 

Our next stop was by the road with a long story about Bloody Point .

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago_genocide

 

As the story goes the Kalinago people wanted to ambush and kill all of the English and French settlers . A woman named Barbe who had been abducted from another island by the Kalinago people told the English and the French of the plans and the French and English united in a pre -emptive strike of their own . They split the land .

 

We next passed by here

 

 

And made a stop at the Wingfield Estate sugar mill ruins . We didn't really want to see these and it looked like rain , but we did it  anyway .

 

 

 

 

We stayed beneath these ruins until the rain stopped

 

 

Annie began asking what we knew about Cotton while showing it to us .

 

 

I explained that my ancestors were indentured servants that came to the new world from Poland to take care of the family of a rich farmer and  help them as unskilled labor picking cotton during the Depression . My mother picked for many years until school forced her to quit and the war began . They became sharecroppers to the farmer after they worked their transportation debt off and had a small dirt farm for subsistence . The word Slave comes from the root word Slav . I remember going to the cotton gin when I was a kid and we got to try picking at my grandparents farm in Texas .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym)

 

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Romney Manor and Caribelle Batik

 

A  number of the ships tour buses had caught us at the last stop and were here en masse all looking to share the bathrooms and the 8 acre grounds . The grounds here remind of some of the places where live but with elevation . We have a Batik place that we used to use for custom made shirts in Cozumel so we had hope to leap frog ahead of the crowd by skipping the presentation . We did like the huge 400 year old tree which reminds us of another tree near the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elephant Ears

 

 

Under the old tree and the sign on the tree

 

 

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by scubacruiserx2

[aprilsp88]

Happy Anniversary! Love your review, full of detail and very nice pictures.

 

In the patter I don't see full size rock and roll band, only trio?

 

Thanks,

April

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We now made a U turn and headed back toward the cruise port but made a left toward the peninsula instead of a right to the cruise port . We were going to where I had requested in the morning .  We now had a slow moving caravan in which every vehicle passed us . Looking South toward Nevis .

 

 

 

 

Returning to the port . We didn't stop for lunch but Annie dropped us off where she picked us up and suggested that we eat there . We made a beeline to our bathroom and a nice Cool walk to GiGi's for a quick bite and a beer . There's no place like home - even if it's only for 3 more days !

 

 

[scubacruiserx2]

52 minutes ago, aprilsp88 said:

Happy Anniversary! Love your review, full of detail and very nice pictures.

 

In the patter I don't see full size rock and roll band, only trio?

 

Thanks,

April

 

Thank you very much . We didn't see one either but we'll look again .