Living From Beach to Beach

Ever since we arrived in Barbdos, and a bit beforehand, the big name beach that kept getting mentioned was Crane Beach, so as a collective we pretty much all knew we wanted to go check out Crane. It seemed like it would be a quick trip where we transfer busses once, but it ended up being quite the trek. After taking the bus into Bridgetown we got off and started to search for the bus terminal using bits & pieces of directions. We ended up wandering the city for a bit, seeing things like Parliment, and the major areas of Bridgetown. We eventually ended up finding the stop, waiting quite a while for our bus to arrive, then took quite a while to get there. It ended up being a 2 hour ride that took half an hour to get back when we took a taxi instead of bus.

But we did eventually arrive at Crane, and it was not too shabby. I guess at one point it was on The Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous as one of the Top 10 beaches in the world, but it wasn't that amazing... There were some sweet stepping stones to get over from the road, a very cool cliff that you could venture out to and jump off, the sand was a very pretty shade of pink due to the amount of coral in the sand. I went up to the top of a large flight of stairs to find a resort hotel (MOM: http://www.thecrane.com) where I got an amazing cheeseburger. On the way out of the beach, some locals got us coconuts and popped them open, gave us straws, and cut them open to eat at the end. Good stuff...

A random fire alarm got set off later in the night, and it was amazingly loud, even more annoying than in the States, but eventually got fixed. Right afterwards I got a Skype message from everyone back in Huntington which was really awesome, very cool to be able to see everyone and them to see me.... almost like I was there with them. The rest of the night consisted of going down to the St. Laurence Gap to a club called McBrides which was hosting an 80s night, tons of fun, a bit of pool, and then we ventured down to a little pub called The Lighthouse where a duo of Barbadians were playing acousic American rock songs by Linkin Park, Coldplay, etc.... it was pretty chill. We got back to the dorms that night at about 5:15am and fell to a dead sleep