October 7-Wednesday

Hard to believe that a month is gone- we leave Barbados this afternoon-spend the night in NYC and leave NY tomorrow evening. We will post our photos as soon as possible- hopefully we will be able to post this blog tonight.

Before we left we drove back into Bridgetown to return the fins and stopped for coffee at a little marketplace. We returned the car to Fred who agreed to taxi us to the airport at noon.

I took my snorkel and mask to the beach and snorkeled around the beach for a while –no coral but lots of small fish, mainly loaches, a few wrasses and other assorted silver fish. The reef is not far out, but we never made it out there- guess we will have to wait for the next trip.

The Maraval Guesthouse proved to be a good choice for us, inexpensive for the area ($45 USD per night with private bath and comfortable beds), communal kitchen, right on the beach and conveniently located to restaurants, stores and the bus line. I was a bit surprise by the prices of dinners in the areas- $30-60B considering that it was off-season but as noted we were able to find roadside stands with good food for $20B and less, and, when we got out of the city areas prices were more reasonable.

Got to the airport in plenty of time- practically no one at customs or security. When we got to the gates, we found that the plane had been delayed coming out of New York due to weather. We noted that was the first real delay we had experienced. Not many people on the flight- probably the majority were people on the last leg of their Jet Blue pass. We compared notes and everyone had nothing but good things to say about Jet Blue, other than the necessity of returning to the states after each leg of the trip.

Arrived in NYC at 9:30pm and cleared customs and immigration quickly. Took a shuttle to the hostel. Two people from Germany were there, a young woman who had been touring Nova Scotia and a young man who is touring NYC.