Carrington - Hike # 32

A bright sunny Sunday afternoon starting off at the Carrington's old sugar factory heading in an easterly direction passing by sugar canefields on the way to Six Roads, from there we head North east passing land marks such as Princess Margaret Secondary School, the Industrial Complex and lots more sugar cane fields next stop was Dodds Juvinile centre, the St philip Parish Church, Chapel quarry and back to the starting point. Trip length 6.3 miles

Total miles for year: 226.4 miles

Bathsheba - Hike # 31

A scorching hot humid day did not in any way deter the prospects of a Sunday hike along the scenic and picturesque eastern coast of Barbados. Starting at the world famous Bathsheba weekend getaway, water sport and island tour stop, heading in an easterly direction passing Through tent Bay, Glenburnie, Martins Bay en route to Bath. From Bath is was uphill passing by the waterfall the abandoned earth station and back to the start along an undulating road for a distance of 8.1 miles
Total Distance for Year 220.1 miles

Applewhaites Plantation Yard - Hike #30

Another rainy weekend but so far the for the hike the rains have been most accommodating. The hike started in one of the inland parishes of the island, the parish of St. Thomas and traveled along cane fields, gullies and some main roads. The major gully traversed was Jack-in-the-box gully with it's interesting array of vegetation, remnants of stalactites and stalagmites and at the end or beginning of the gully according to how you look at it is Coles cave. A nice hike covering a distance of 5.6 miles.
Total Distance for year 212 miles

Skeete's Bay - Hike #29

A gentle Sunday evening stroll, starting at Skeete's Bay fish market in the parish of St. Philip, traveling along the cliff face, passing Culpepper Island, Ragged point light house. And returning to the start Via an inland route.

This short trip tick the odometer over 4.4 miles

Total For year : 206.4 miles

Drax Hall - Hike #28

200 miles completed for the year, this hike took in parts of three parishes, St. George, St. Philip and St. John with excellent view, and displays of architecture a pleasant hike over mainly flat terrain with a few gentle hills.
This hike also provided some information on Quaker burial grounds and restoration of some of the existing sites.
Total journey traveled on hike #28 - 6.4 miles

Total distance traveled for the year - 202 miles

Indian Ground - Hike #27

With constant rains in the morning and throughout the day, the prospects of a hike seemed a bit remote and I was even thinking, maybe i should give it a miss since we hiked that area in March of this year. But the hiker in me said no and I didn't regret it even though our island Barbados is small this route was totally different from the one taken in March. With some nice hills and scenery covering areas such as Greenland, Cherry tree hill, Farley Hill park Just to mention a few.
The only challenged experience during the 6.7 mile journey was the mud which made the uphill climbs a bit slippery and a tad harder having to walk with the mud on the boots.
Total Distance covered for year 195.6 Miles

Codrington College - hike #26

I can almost call this hike the religious hike as we started at Codrington College the institute of theological learning in Barbados, then stop at the Holy Cross church, St. John Parish church and the Pot House enclave of the Rastafarian movement.
This hike was a somewhat balanced mixture of uphill and downhill and provided excellent views of the country side from Ragged point to the right to Tent Bay on the left. And a chance to see one of the few remaining sun dials on the island
Another excellent hike covering 6.3 miles
Total so far for year 188.9 Miles