This is one of the more famous beaches in Antigua. I am looking thru old images, and I just had to share this. It is quite lovely.
-Ray
Tag Archives: Antigua
Picture of the day: The island of Barbuda
This beach is on the island of Barbuda, that make up the second part of the Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. I visited the island in 2013, and this image just take me back to that beautiful and secluded island.
-Ray
Picture of the day: The devils bridge in Antigua
Todays image is of the “Devils bridge” on the east coast of Antigua. The bridge is a rock arch that stretches over very rough waters, and when I shot the image this was as close as I was allowed to get due to the weather and wind. The reason for the name has to do with Antigua`s slave past, and that slaves from neighboring estates use to go there and throw themselves overboard. Hence the notion of the devil living there. Even for the grim history of not so distant past, the natural phenomena is quite spectacular.
-Ray
Picture of the day: Betty`s Hope
Betty`s Hope was a large-scale plantation on Antigua and Barbuda, and today is no longer in operation. The estate have today a heritage status, and some of the buildings on the former estate have been restored, amongst others, this sugar mill, that is quite the impressive site.
-Ray
Picture of the day: Falmouth harbour
Todays image is from the Caribbean. This is the Falmouth harbour in Antigua and Barbuda. I really adore that place, and find the Caribbean mode and pace of things quite alluring.
-Ray
Picture of the day: A sailboat in a cove
This little maritime scene is shot at Antigua at my visit there a month ago
-Ray
Picture of the day : A Frigate bird
This is a male frigate bird , and the image is taken outside the Frigate bird sanctuary at Barbuda
-Ray
Betty`s Hope suger mill
Here is a little history from one of Antigua`s large tourist attractions. The Betty`s Hope suger plantation
This little quote is from http://www.antigua-barbuda.org. :
Betty’s Hope was the first large sugar plantation on Antigua, and its success led to the island’s rapid development of large-scale sugar production. Although the only surviving structures are two stone sugar mills and the remains of the stillhouse, the site’s importance in Antiguan history has prompted the government to begin developing it as an open air museum. About a hundred stone windmill towers dot the Antiguan landscape, and the two restored examples at Betty’s Hope provide a dramatic sense of the way these mills must have dominated the island during the hundreds of years that sugar production was the dominant industry. Betty’s Hope was built by Sir Christopher Codrington, who came to Antigua in 1674 from Barbados, and was named for his daughter.
Here is a image in HDR that I took of the structures
-Ray
Picture of the day: Beach at the island of Barbuda
Another isolated beach at the north side of Barbuda
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Picture of the day: Sailboat outside Antigua
A sailboat in a older “look and feel”
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