Along the East (platinum) coast of Barbados many a tour boat travels up and down, filled to the brim with so many people that there's hardly any space to stand. These trips are fuelled with the open bar on board, and you can see lots of drunk people jumping into the sea from them.
We didn't go on one of these boats. Our trip was organised on board the Bolador, built for 40, but only 10 people are ever taken at one time. This means that everyone gets a place to sit, and also some shade. Very sophisticated.
Heading out on this catamaran into the ocean whilst travelling up the coast gave some great views: the expensive residences, the spotless coastline, and the flying fish jumping out of the water ahead of the boat.
We had three scheduled stops on this trip. The first one was to swim with the turtles, which was an amazing experience. They came up all around the boat and kept swimming past us, underneath us and between us. The only downside was that we didn't have a waterproof camera with us.
Stop two was for snorkelling around a shipwreck with various small fish and colourful coral to marvel at. Once we had left this spot and were heading back along the coast we stopped for a bite to eat. The crew had cooked us some local food and we served ourselves good portions of it.
Once we finally came in to land where we started our journey, we were relaxed, happy and slightly browned despite lashings of solar protection.
Seeing as we hadn't yet made it in time to see the proper sunset, we decided that the timing was right and headed off down the walkway to grab some of the famous Caribbean sunset. It's an amazing sight, especially as it only lasts for about 10 minutes before it's completely set, so you have to be quick to get any pictures of it.
We freshened up and then headed off to Shaker's (get a taxi there as it's down some unlit roads) where we had heard some good reviews from fellow travellers. Indeed the food was very good, the 10 Saints beer (aged in old rum casks) a great change from the constant Banks', and the atmosphere was buzzing.
What a great final night on this island.
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