Barbados - Odds & Ends

Some of the photos that didn't make a Barbados post: 

Princess Lucky Love made a guest appearance at the wedding.

Elizabeth had to keep her mouth closed because Princess Lucky Love loves to grab shiny things. Like braces.

Much to my dismay, Emily insisted on having her hair braided. She even coughed up her own money to do it.

Family photo from the beach wedding.

Bathsheba

Our final tourist-y stop was Bathsheba, a fishing village where may local and international surfing competitions are held. There are huge rock boulders in the water offshore, so it's a great place to take photos. And meet a monkey.

Bathsheba Rock

Hunte's Gardens

A side trip to Hunte's Gardens was provided as part of our trip to Harrison's Cave. It is a huge botanical garden in the middle of Barbados and we spent more than an hour exploring it.

These flowers were some of my mother's favorites. She first saw them in Hawaii in the mid-80's and always loved them. There were everywhere in the garden; I felt like my mother was with me there, everywhere I turned.

Anthony Hunte owns the land and developed the gardens. His person home is on the property and part of the visit.

Harrison's Cave

The major attraction on Barbados is Harrison's Cave. It is a huge cave formed by water erosion through limestone rock - Barbados is made of limestone, not volcanic rock. The water that runs through the caves - it take a year from the time rain falls until it lands on the floor of the caves - formed stalactites and stalagmites. Harrison's Cave is pretty far from where we stayed, but we thought that it was worth the trip.  It was really interesting - plus, we got to wear awesome hairnets! 

It's not often we get a great family photo, but I'm sad to say that this will not make the Christmas card this year.

You can just barely see the waterfall in this picture.

The piece on the top and the piece on the bottom will grow and eventually join - in about 2 million years.