Post your memorable BARBADOS PICS HERE!

[Aplmac]

Bouganvillea!

 

I swear this color has not been altered in any way

-it just goes mad like this, every Dry Season!

 

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Edited April 6, 2009 by aplmac

[erikishere]

hi ! these pics are perfect ! i just love them! thank you thank you! it was such a fabulous experience to actually swim with these wonderful sea turtles, that i wanted some pictures to make the experience last even longer! .....and i didn't actually lock him out of the house!!!!! ; ) Lorna

[Aplmac]

.....and i didn't actually lock him out of the house!!! -Lorna

Yeah yeah...that's what they all say! -- L:DL

[holdon216]

Vegasman, where was it on Barbados that you saw that fish, and those turtles?? Thanks

[Aplmac]

[Aplmac]

..on the West Coast --just South of Speightstown

 

 

 

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[virginiatechmom]

lovely...... :D

[Aplmac]

for wind-surfing and kite-boarding!

 

Silver Sands Beach on the Southern tip of the island.

 

 

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[theump]

Love following your post and seeing all the good information and pictures you put on here. Have received a couple of your post in answer to mine and PXY CDA questions before and take the info to heart. We will be there for one day in early May and really looking forward to the visit. We have plans that day and want also to see the monkeys. Maybe we will get lucky and see some as we wonder around. We are doing the turtle project in the morning then a beach and some sight seeing. Have to see that big tree in Queens park.

 

But looking at your pictures and post agee we need a week there to really see and enjoy the island. Maybe next vacation will be a land one instead of a cruise. Will use this trip to chaeck out the different islands but really like the look of Barbados.

 

Keep up the great work and post.

 

The Ump:cool:

John

[Aplmac]

Love following your post and seeing all the good information and pictures you put on here.

Have received a couple of your post in answer to mine and PXY CDA questions before and take the info to heart.

We will be there for one day in early May and really looking forward to the visit.

We have plans that day and want also to see the monkeys.

Maybe we will get lucky and see some as we wonder around.

We are doing the turtle project in the morning then a beach

and some sight seeing.

Have to see that big tree in Queens Park. ===> Busy day,by the sound of it!

 

But looking at your pictures and post agree we need a week there to really see and enjoy the island.

Maybe next vacation will be a land one instead of a cruise.

Will use this trip to check out the different islands but really like the look of Barbados.

Glad to hear I'm keeping you amused and informed!

 

The big (wide around...not that tall) African BAOBAB Tree in Queens Park

has a brother in the WARRENS area along the road to Jackson.

 

It's down in the dip,on the Western edge of the road to Jackson

no more than about 150 yds. North of the roundabout where you come off the ABC Hiway,tell your driver

...at the end of the big ole high coral stone wall

that surrounds the old Warrens Pltn. House property(now a Bank)

[Mrs.C05]

Aplmac, do you LIVE in Barbados?!?!?! How do you get such wonderful pictures?!?! I don't know where we went on our S. Carib. cruise, but I could've swore it said Barbados ;) and I didn't see anything as beautiful as what your pictures look like! Here are a few of my "memorable" photos of Barbados.....but not nearly as good as yours.....

We did the Malibu Rum Distillery and Beach.....we got showered on 3 times.:( But it was an interesting tour!

[NCSunshine]

The sun was out and the sky was blue, we were at Carlisle Bay in Barbados. There was a very dark cloud above the sea, but you could still see the blue sky and the sea was beautiful.

 

http://pictures.cruisecritic.com/showfull.php?photo=8867

Edited April 13, 2009 by NCSunshine
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[NCSunshine]

trying again to see if the picture works

[Aplmac]

Aplmac, do you LIVE in Barbados? ===> Only for 57 years

How do you get such wonderful pictures? ===> I pick my days, locations, lenses..

 

I don't know where we went on our S. Carib. cruise

but I could've swore it said Barbados ;) ===> MAN you did have a good time!

and I didn't see anything as beautiful as what your pictures look like! ===> You forgot your Sigma 10-20 mm. lens at home, didn't you?! :cool:

 

We did the Malibu Rum Distillery and Beach.....we got showered on 3 times.:( But it was an interesting tour!

It's been wetter than usual for the last 4-5 months or so.

 

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Oh by the way...the chair guy on the beach says to tell you..

you still have a dollar for him, from last time

 

Bottom Bay's a long way out there!

 

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[Aplmac]

Which way do you cruise?

 

 

 

 

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[tkilrainrn]

Aplmac...Your pictures are so beautiful it almost brings tears to my eyes. I have never been to Barbados before but can't wait till I get there. We will be there in November of this year. The beaches are breathtaking and I can't decide where to go. I really would like to swim with the turtles and then spend the rest of the day at the beach. Are the turtles close to the beach or do you need to go out on a boat to reach them?

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of Barbados. It is very helpful.

Terri

[Aplmac]

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View from the gallery of the Penthouse suite on the 5th. floor.

 

After sunset.

 

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[KuffMUp]

That's kinda hard to do... but here's...

 

 

..your chairs and umbrella waiting at Accra/Rockley :)

 

 

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Do you have a UV filter on the camera? Your photos are so vivid!

[swom]

We LOVED Rockley beach. Waves were a little more than we were expecting, but nice beach.

I think next time we will try the beach where the turtles hang out. Another passenger on our ship said snorkeling was good there and we didn't even try to snorkel at Rockley. Our guide said there wasn't any there.

Still it was a lovely beach and we enjoyed it greatly.

[Aplmac]

Do you have a UV filter on the camera? Your photos are so vivid!

The front end of the Sigma 10-20 zoom carries a 77 mm. UV filter yes..

but the lens itself is very good(too good?) on the blues and cyan's.

 

That's the vivid you see.

 

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[Aplmac]

We LOVED Rockley beach.

Waves were a little more than we were expecting, but nice beach.

I think next time we will try the beach where the turtles hang out. ===> West Coast.

Another passenger on our ship said snorkeling was good there and we didn't even try to snorkel at Rockley.

Our guide said there wasn't any there. ===> Not true.

Still it was a lovely beach and we enjoyed it greatly.

The popular local perception is that there's no snorkelling to be had at Rockley Beach/Accra

but there is a man-made barrier reef about 150 yds. offshore, up the Eastern end of the bay

that's been there now for about 15 years!

 

In that time is has attracted considerable marine growth, sea fans, fish and baby lobster!

It's worth a look if you're a keen experienced snorkeller

and if you work its inner and outer lengths, you get to see two different reefs!

although I usually do just the inside.

 

Somewhere in these Barbados threads

we had one guy who followed my recommendation to snorkel that boulder-reef

and he wrote in to say he was completely wowed!

 

If you must do Accra(can't blame you!) -and someone in your party must get in some snorkelling

this barrier reef is not bad snorkelling!

 

Not great I grant you, but not bad either!

The water's usually reasonably clear since Rockley is a well-flushed bay

so give it a try!

 

Would the next person please re-educate the local tour guide. Really. ;)

Thanks!

 

 

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[aloha43]

 

I love this one.

 

I took one similar in Hawaii. Except ours had 2 sets of feet! :D But it was taken the other direction.....facing the beach and water.

[gr82cu2]

Happy feet in the powdery fine sand in Barbados :D

 

 

Sunset as we sailed away from beautiful Barbados :(

 

 

:p The good news is we are going back to Barbados!!! Yahoo!!!! We found it to be absolutely beautiful there and want more time to see more of the island and its beauty. We will be returning next May and staying for 5 or 6 nights before boarding the Sea Princess back to Ft. Lauderdale by way of Aruba, Bonaire and Grenada. I can't wait!!

[Aplmac]

After some weeks of contemplating a similarly-titled thread

for the nearby Caribbean island of Dominica

I took the plunge!

 

 

So if you want to have a look at the rainforest island

and post your memorable pics of that island-of-296-square-miles

 

please click on this URL...

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=991087

and be transported!

 

 

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Edited May 22, 2009 by aplmac

[floridalady]

you are a doll to post them-they are so great.I wanna go.