Friday, April 1,2011
Barbados

Barbados is 166 square miles with a population of 285,000 residents. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Barbados followed the sugar trade and had 26 British forts built on the island. It became independent of Great Britain in the 1960s.

Our tour today was to be a catamaran sail to see the sea turtles and have a picnic lunch and swim. Instead it was a tour of the infirmary to socialize with the doctor and discuss my cold and cough.:( Between antibiotics and Robitussin , the doctor assured me I would live to sail another day. So it is on to St. Lucia tomorrow no matter what.

I did leave the ship this afternoon to walk to the shops at the end of the pier. So I really can say I was in Barbados. :)