My Barbados Blog

I stopped by the Tropical Sky blog to read a posting on the Top Ten Caribbean nature spots - and of course Barbados was on the list.

The posting states that while the Caribbean is world famous for its beautiful beaches, sun and friendly locals, there is so much more to the Caribbean - Nature!

It is true that every island has its own native plants/trees and flowers that are often unique to a particular island.

The island of Barbados national flower is called the "Pride of Barbados" - shown at left. Actually it is really a shrub, and around the island you will see that it trimmed into a low hedge.

On your next visit to Barbados, as well as the rest of the Caribbean, take a momemt to "smell the flowers ", and truly appreciate all that Mother Nature has to offer. 

 Read Top Ten Caribbean - Nature & Wildlife

Here's what Living in Barbados says:

Travelling through Barbados leaves me constantly confused. One moment, I feel that I am clearly in the Caribbean, the next moment I feel that I could be in the Highlands of Scotland. That is part of the intrigue of the island. There are not the dramatic high mountains of Jamaica, or the volcanic peaks of St. Lucia or Dominica. But the palm and banana trees that hug the rolling hills of Barbados, especially its eastern coastline, in St. Andrew parish, give the island a distinct charm.

Read rest of the posting
http://livinginbarbados.blogspot.com/2007/06/land-of-changing-views.html

A team of British scientists have set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean - a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works.

The hole is about 5,000 meters (16,400) feet under the surface of the Atlantic and located half way between the island of Tenerife and the island of Barbados. It has a diameter of 3,000 to 4,000 meters (10,000 to 13,000 feet).

In case you are not familiar with Tenerife - it is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean located off the coast of Africa.

The mysterious hole is in an undersea mountain range, which forms when Atlantic tectonic plates separate and volcanic lava surges upward to fill the gap in the earth’s crust - but this particular hole did not fill back up, and the mantle (the material that makes up the Earth's interior) is exposed.

Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing tectonic plate theories of evolution.

More detailed info at the project web site