Barbuda - Where Heaven meets the Sea
17 February 2011 | Barbuda
Henriette - clear bright skies !
If you like the sea...this is heaven on earth! Barbuda is a low island – no hills or mountains and sits in an ocean of blue that has the most vibrant and clear intense colour about it. The coral white beaches in contrast with all the clear shades of glass blues around you immediately gives you the feeling of: “whatever it takes – I don’t want to ever leave this...!” It is like soul music washing over you... it just has an amazing relaxing effect ... it is like a magnet -you cannot look away, you don’t want to look away and every time you turn your head it is just a more breathtaking site than the previous one hitting you!
This is where you can have a fresh baguette and cheddar cheese with a glass of champagne ...and just sit and sit and ...nothing will spoil the moment!
The AMAZING Blue (crystal clear) waters and blinding white beaches (almost all to ourselves) of Barbuda was another of the most wonderful places we have seen up till now! (with excellent snorkeling! - we spent just about 2 hours a day in the water!)
We did not want to leave! We had our “new friends” Karen and Matt (from the Yacht "Where II "– also Aussies) over for dinner last night – it was our farewell to Spanish Point and it was sad to leave.
We've visited the Frigate Bird colony on Codrington lagoon today and had to anchor in fairly rolley seas at Low Bay (also stunningly beautiful but more exposed!) – The Frigates was soo amazing to see ...but tell you what... we met the water taxi at the beach (the only way you can see the bird colonies is with them!) and we almost capsized our dingy in the breaking waves due to the Northerly swells that has showed up uninvited!
It's a good thing we took some dry clothes (in a water tight Pelican case (ha!) ...and all the camera's were in there too THANK GOODNESS!!) - the dingy was 3/4 full of water by the time we made it out into the sea again and it took us at least 15 min to get the water out through the opened bung! I honestly thought we were going to lose the dinghy!
There was water and sand every where and crocks shoes and pelican cases was swimming in the dinghy...with every wave coming onto us just bigger and more vicious!
The thought of getting capsized was lying pretty shallow in the back of my mind...and we did not have any life jackets! Another lesson learned!
I was not the most pleasant companion at the end of our blue water rafting adventure....!
Another Catamaran (Lucky Dancer) had a too big a dingy to drag out onto the beach and they went the long way around (to the north) to access the entrance to the lagoon (about a 3 miles detour!!) from where we are (in front of the Light House Hotel at Low Bay) ...that is certainly the best option to meet the Water taxi!
So if you are attempting the waves...make sure you go with something that is light enough to carry under your arm ...or take the safe option!