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[NHRedSoxFan]

Abberboo

 

It's St. John's Parish Church. This is the view from the grounds behind the church...

 

[Aplmac]

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[eetonaee]

The Jewish cemetery

Edited March 11, 2010 by eetonaee

[eetonaee]

The interior of the synagogue

[eetonaee]

[Aplmac]

..over on the East Coast -at Bathsheba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Peace2U]

Here are mine.

[Down2Mars]

Aplmac,

I was sorting through old posts and came across - yet again, some more of your awesome pictures.

 

I will be coming to Barbados in April for the day and decided to head out to paynes beach in the morning to trying and catch some turtles swimming (while the tours are out feeding) and then head over to Rockley beach. =)

But where is Bathsheba?

 

I have a basic map inside my 'Frommer's ports of call' travel book - but nothing says Bathsheba.

 

Thanks for all your help =)

[Aplmac]

I will be coming to Barbados in April for the day and decided to head out to paynes beach in the morning

to trying and catch some turtles swimming (while the tours are out feeding)

and then head over to Rockley beach. =)

But where is Bathsheba?

 

I have a basic map inside my 'Frommer's ports of call' travel book - but nothing says Bathsheba.

Bathsheba is over on the East Coast of the island.

 

If Bathsheba isn't shown on Frommer's (substandard?) map,

maybe Cattlewash or Tent Bay (-on either side of Bathsheba) might be shown?

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[head2heel]

...definitely the most memorable part of our trip. Did the catamaran cruise with Silver Moon while on the 2/28 Carnival Victory sailing.

 

Images taken with a Canon D10.

 

 

[Aplmac]

 

 

Quite amazing!

 

Back when I was a thoroughly-amphibious creature (in another life)

this would not have been possible! Turtles would come nowhere near humans.

One look at you and they fled!!

 

 

Happily, it's very different today

now the turtle consciousness thing has turned things entirely around.

 

They're now seen as a tourism resource: excellent example of mindset change

from once being a meat source to be hunted to extinction --to a valuable tourism resource!

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[Peace2U]

Great turtle pics!

[mnbruce]

That second turtle photo is wonderful.

[Putterdude]

Bruce, I enjoyed your photos a ton...thanks!

[Aplmac]

..is a species of VERVET monkey native to West Africa.

 

Specimens were brought over from Africa, along with the slave trade

three hundred years ago, and look virtually identical to the African vervets.

 

 

 

 

This little guy in the Military Cemetery was so tame I walked within about six feet of him.

He was happy with his seed-pod, and didn't seem threatened by me or the camera!

This is the same Vervet sp. you'll see in St.Kitts -and maybe some of the other islands too.

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[mnbruce]

Bruce, I enjoyed your photos a ton...thanks!

 

That's very nice of you. Thank you!

[bennybear]

Hello, we will be in Barbados on Easter Sunday and would like to do a brief tour of the island and spend time at the beach. Does anyone know if there will be taxis available that day? Would Accra be too crowded? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Thanks,B

[Aplmac]

Hello, we will be in Barbados on Easter Sunday

and would like to do a brief tour of the island and spend time at the beach.

Does anyone know if there will be taxis available that day? ===> Should be, yes.

Would Accra be too crowded? ===> Easter Monday will be crowded.

You'll be alright. No shops open of course, but you'll survive. ;)

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[benjispice]

Here are a couple of mine...I have lots of turtles but their pixels are MASSIVE and I don't have time to upload them.

[Aplmac]

...I have lots of turtles but their pixels are MASSIVE and I don't have time to upload them.

Their pixels are massive because, I suspect, the Image Size setting in your camera's Menu

remains at the manufacturer's default setting

which comes to us all at the largest possible setting -something akin to MURAL size. :eek:

 

Do you and I really need mural-sized photos? Not usually!

Are you making hi-quality 16 x 20 prints? No?

 

 

Dig around in the cam's Menu until you get to Image Size.

Bring it down several notches: you'll often find that the smallest or near-smallest

is quite adequate for most people's needs! ;)

 

 

And while you're in the Menu, you should find Image Quality right next to Image Size.

You'll probably find that set at default setting Normal (not great)

Jack up Image Quality to Superfine while you're there.

 

 

With settings like I've suggested

suddenly now your SD or other storage cards will hold many many more shots

-and you won't be taking mural-sized photos any more! :)

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[benjispice]

Their pixels are massive because, I suspect, the Image Size setting in your camera's Menu

remains at the manufacturer's default setting

which comes to us all at the largest possible setting -something akin to MURAL size. :eek:

 

Do you and I really need mural-sized photos? Not usually!

Are you making hi-quality 16 x 20 prints? No?

 

 

Dig around in the cam's Menu until you get to Image Size.

Bring it down several notches: you'll often find that the smallest or near-smallest

is quite adequate for most people's needs! ;)

 

 

And while you're in the Menu, you should find Image Quality right next to Image Size.

You'll probably find that set at default setting Normal (not great)

Jack up Image Quality to Superfine while you're there.

 

 

With settings like I've suggested

suddenly now your SD or other storage cards will hold many many more shots

-and you won't be taking mural-sized photos any more! :)

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Thanks for the tips... I hope the help other people!

 

However, in this case, our digi-cam pics are just fine.

 

With our underwater pics though, we bought a disposible camera. We took them to Costo to develop, and also got a CD so we had them digitally as well. But Costco burned them onto the CD at these outrageously enormous sizes... It's INSANE. We want to make them smaller, but it takes several minutes just to OPEN one of the pics, we're just putting it on the back burner for now. Ugh.

[head2heel]

Thanks for the tips... I hope the help other people!

 

However, in this case, our digi-cam pics are just fine.

 

With our underwater pics though, we bought a disposible camera. We took them to Costo to develop, and also got a CD so we had them digitally as well. But Costco burned them onto the CD at these outrageously enormous sizes... It's INSANE. We want to make them smaller, but it takes several minutes just to OPEN one of the pics, we're just putting it on the back burner for now. Ugh.

 

You can also easily resize in many photo editing programs (many free or come with your computer). 600 to 800 px on the long side should be sufficient.

[Aplmac]

The gold flowers are locally know as "Cloth of Gold"

It's a vine often found growing on the remains of the island's many old sugar-mill walls

 

 

Not sure what the name of the purple flower is

but as small boys we used to twirl the individual flowers between thumb and forefinger

to make them spin like helicopter rotors!

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[travelgyalrox2]

awww.....my Bim is so beautiful:o

[Ajbike]

OK Aplmac you may need to help me here. So many beaches, so little memory. Which one was this?