Bathshbea Barbados, Sea, Sun, Shells, Fish, Reef, Tide Pools, Train Line

In an earlier blog I mentioned Bathsheba Why I Love Being A Tour Guide In Barbados. It was here that I first dreamed of one day having a job that I could Visit Bathsheba Every Day. That dream became a reality when I started Glory Tours a sightseeing and Excursion Tour Company In Barbados.

It was In Bathsheba where I spent my summers with my parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and grandmother. I would sit and sketch by my grandmothers side, she herself was an amazing artist and many tourist bought her work from art galleries. Painting was one of a million talents she possessed.

She walked with us on the beach collecting sea shells, telling us their names. She told us stories of the old train line (see Barbados Railway 1873-1937) tent bay the fishing village above Bathsheba and of a US war ship that crashed off the coast. my Great Aunt actually married one of the officers.

In this blog I will try to capture the beauty of Bathsheba in photographs, however I must say the true beauty and spirit of Bathsheba can not be captured through a camera it takes something much more personal and I encourage all to take a visit and to walk upon its shores. Take a dip in the tide pools and soak in the surf. 

As to the name Bathsheba Legend has it that Bathsheba, wife of King David, bathed in milk to keep her skin beautiful and soft. It is said that the surf covered white waters of Bathsheba, rich in minerals and life is said to resemble Bathsheba's bath in both appearance health giving value.

This is the rugged east coast of Barbados, where visitors come to breath the air, soak in the invigorating Bathsheba Pools and feel alive.
It is breathtakingly beautiful; wide tan sand beaches stretch along a dramatic coastline of striking rock formations sculpted out by the large Atlantic rollers. What at first glance are huge boulders washed up on the beach, are actually rock formations broken away from ancient coral reef that is now seen high above.

Bathsheba is home to a small community of fishing folk and their families. Along the coast are guest houses, local rum shops and restaurants. It is a hideaway for discerning tourists and for Bajans who frequently weekend here in their seaside cottages along the shore.

Above Sunrise At Bathsheba

Above Sunrise At Bathsheba

Above Sunrise At Bathsheba

Above Sunrise At Bathsheba

Above Tide Pool In Bathsheba

Above The Rocks Out To Sea Are The Musics

Above Two Of The Musics

Above pieces Of The Old Train Line

Above A Tide Pool

Above What Was Once Part Of The Beaches Changing Facilities And Later Used In The Filming Of The Bold & The Beautiful

Above A Red Flag That Is Always Up Signifying High Sea

Above The Mushroom Rock In Bathsheba

Above A Path That Was Once Part Of The Old Train Line

Above Is High Rock With Greavsies Pool Bellow

Above View From Under High Rock

Above Window to the Sea From Pneumonia Pool

Above Window to the Sea From Pneumonia Pool

Above Window to the Sea From Pneumonia Pool

Above Window to the Sea From Boulder On Bathsheba Beach

Above Green Fingers Stretch To The Sea

Above San Stone On Bathsheba Beach

Above A turbine Snail Clinging To A Moss Covered Rock

Above A Sea Anemone

Above Tiny Sea Anemones With A Moss Covered Crab On Top

Above A Violet Snail Shell

Above We Called This Lettuce Sea Weed

Above Pink Coral And A Red Sea Urchin

Above A Hermit Crab

Above A Moss Covered Rock

Above A Violet Snail

Above A Sea Shell Home To A Hermit Crab

Above A Black Sea Urchin

Above Coral

Above Barnacles Grow On A Reef

Above A red Sea Urchin

Above Sea Weed

Above Sea Weed

Above Turbine Snails

Above Chiton - 'Sea Beef'

Above Large Sea Cockroach

Above Green Heron

Above A Green Heron Fishing On The Reef

Above A Green Heron With His Catch

Above A Green Heron Stands Tall

Above Wild Flower

Above Wild Flower

Above Sea Glass

Above A Coral Crusted Sea Fan

Above A Small Piece Of  Brain Coral

Above A Dried Out Piece Of Sea Weed

Above A Piece Of Drift Wood We Used To Collect These For Beach Bonn Fires

Above A Coral Crusted Sea Fan

Above Brain Coral

Above The Shell Of A Dried Out Sea Urchin

Above A Sand Crab, We Would Run After These As Kids Catching And Releasing Them

Above A Dead Crab

Above The Back of A Tri-Colour Pumkin Moon Crab

Above Caribbean Ghost Crab

Above A Giant Land Crab, Or What We Call A Swampy

Above a Manawar the blue threats are stingers and as children

we were taught to pop them with our heel and kill them.

Above A Turkey Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Top Hat Shell

Above A Violet Snail Shell

Above A Cow Shell

Above A Pigeon Shell

Above A Turkey Shell

Above Puppy Eye Shells

Above The Shell Of A Sea Worm

Above A finger Nail Shell

Above A White Top Hat Shell

Above A Duck Shell

Above A Hen Shell

Above A Pigeon Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Pink Top Hat

Above A Ginnie Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Clam Shell

Above A Sea Shell

Above A Zebra Fish

Above A School Mistress

Above Is A Sand Fish

Above A Sea Slug

Above  Is A Sea Centipede

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