Sheba in Bathsheba

We took a tour of inland Barbados this morning and made our way from the west to the east coast. The island is beautiful through and through! We passed through rolling hills of sugar cane, banana tree forests, ghost town villages scattered with roaming goats and abandoned buildings. Again, I was amazed at the bus driver's ability to rush down tiny bumpy roads that don't really even have room for a produce cart, let alone a bus, without crashing or killing anyone or anything. Kenric and I commented to each other after getting off the bus at Bathsheba Beach on the east coast that the bus rides here are just about equivalent to a rollercoaster ride! I tried to take a picture of our talented driver and his assistant, but the bus shuttered so much that I couldn't ever get a decent shot... so you'll have to be satisfied with this one:

We wandered up and down the rocky beach side (the east coast is more like the Oregon/Washington coastline with crashing waves, rocky cliffs, and large rock formations than the white sand beaches we have enjoyed so far) and found some interesting rocks, an abandoned house and a little monkey friend! The man who owned the monkey told us that her name is Sheba and he let us hold her for a bit. Sheba really likes bananas and her fingers are so tiny!

We searched for an old church called St. Joseph's for a while, but had no luck. We don't have roaming wifi or cell service so we didn't have much direction. We asked a few locals and the bus drivers if they knew where we could find the church, but no one seemed to know. Finally, when we gave up and jumped on a bus back to Bridgetown, the bus driver told us that he knew of the church, but that we'd have to get on a bus going the opposite direction to reach it. We decided that we enjoyed the trip out to the east coast so much that we would just come back another day to photograph St. Joseph's.

Back in Bridgetown, we cooled off with some chocolate milkshakes from Chefetts, the islands prominent fast food chain business, and then hit the beach! we built a sandcastle with a noteworthy moat, but the waves grew bigger as the day wore on and our castle was mostly washed away, I added a picture below of it's final remnants. We also met a very nice dog that liked my beach towel, I tried to build a sand wall to keep her off of it and me, but she just sat on my wall - I nicknamed her sand because she was the same color of the sand and she liked to sit on it. The sunset tonight was stunning because of the clouds that moved in as the evening wore on:) Also, the dude in the last picture is not walking on the water, he's on a paddle board, but either way he looks cool and made a wonderful picture!