Barbados  May 2021
Tent Bay

From the Atlantis Hotel, where I quarantined, I could look out on Tent Bay on the Atlantic coast.




Tent Bay is so picturesque even the locals come to paint it.


Tent Bay
Bathsheba beach

The beaches on the Atlantic coast tend to be wild and covered with seaweed.




Barbados bulfinches are very friendly. This one came to my hotel room for breakfast.


Barbados bullfinch
Atlantis Hotel beach

The Atlantis Historic Inn dates from the end of the 19th century and was formerly served by a railroad which went between the hotel and the water's edge.




When I visited there was still a lot of ash in the woods, left from the eruption of La Soufrier in St Vincent the previous month.


ash on forest floor
Barbados scenery

Looking eastward out over the island from a high point.




Looking west from the ridge behind Fitts Village.


view over Fitts village
Chesterfield House

Katy's apartment in Chesterfield House, Fitts Village.




Katy hard at work in her garden office.


Katy at work
green monkey

Green monkeys visit the garden.


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Sunset and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance.


sunset
bananaquit

Bananaquits are everywhere.




Antillean crested hummingbird


Antillean crested hummingbird
Zenaida dove

Zenaida dove




ubiquitous chickens


chickens
Barbados anole

Barbados anole




Orchids in the garden


orchid
orchid

another orchid




Delicious meals at Champers Restaurant


Kathy at Champers
Bajan fried flying fish

Bajan fried flying fish




attractive salads


Katy at Champers
appetizer sampler with plantain chips

Bajan appetizer sampler from the Roundhouse restaurant with plantain chips and fried okra




Snorkeling


Kathy snorkeling
coral and small fish

Coral formations and a tiny fish in an astonishingly blue sea




so many different reef fish


reef fish
parrotfish and tang

See the parrotfish's red tail. The other is a blue tang. There were a lot of them.




More blue tangs


blue tangs
queen parrotfish

This queen parrotfish was surprisingly large




Acropora table coral


table coral
blue tang

another blue tang where the reef meets the sand




Katy at Folkestone Underwater Park


Folkestone underwater park and Katy
glass-bottomed kayak

Paddling a glass-bottomed kayak over the reef at Fitts Beach




Fitts beach and the turtle rescue team


Fitts Beach
Katy

A disguised turtle nest on Fitts Beach