Just back from Barbados: A brief review of an independent tour

[queenL]

This was our third visit to Barbados. So we kind of have been there done that for most of the islands major attractions. I wanted to take the photography tour but I couldn’t find enough people who were interested. So, we ended up hiring a guide to take us to tour the west side of Barbados. It was the only area we hadn’t seen yet. We drafted other cruisers waiting for a tour at the dock and we negotiated $15pp for a 3hr tour. There really wasn’t much on the west side. We stopped at historic St James Church and a few other scenic places for photos.

[Ocean State]

Thanks for the info, have you done Harrison's Caves on your previous visits?

Any feedback for us?

[queenL]

Thanks for the info, have you done Harrison's Caves on your previous visits?

Any feedback for us?

 

Yes, we did Harrison's cave on our first visit. We went on our as well. I think we just hired a cab. If you have never been inside a cave than the stalactites etc will be well worth the trip. We did enjoy the trip, however, if you have been to several caves before nothing about this will be any different.

[Aplmac]

We did enjoy the trip,

however, if you have been to several caves before nothing about this will be any different.

I once toured Harrisons Cave with an American geologist friend of mine

Kenneth J. Mesolella,Ph.D. -Brown Univ. R I - 1966

who signed the visitors book, after making his comment about a beautiful living cave.

 

As we drove away, I questioned him about what he meant by the phrase "living"cave

(as opposed to a dead? cave..)

 

 

He explained to me that the vast majority of caves are fashioned by running water

which does its work carving out the cave's bottom/floor

by process of gradual erosion, over millions of years

- and that most commercial/accessible caves today have no running water still doing its thing.

They are, in effect.. 'dead' caves.

 

 

Harrisons Cave still has its running watter ..it's still alive

still changing the cave every minute of every day

(albeit microscopically in the eyes of Man and his paltry 80-yr. life span

which is but 'a twinkle in the eye' of millenia-long geological processes) ;)

 

So.. enjoy the running water going thru the cave

and the drips from the ceiling!

 

Listen to the small waterfalls.

And remember this well the next time you visit another cave

(probably dead and rather static,by comparison) in some other country.

 

Harrisons Cave lives!