Travels of Hew & Barb
Curaçao is part of the Dutch Antillies in the Caribbean. While it has been treated badly with generations ruining the landscape from slavery, bad agriculture, petroleum refining and rampant tourism without any controls. there are many interesting and beautiful places. Every country needs time spent in it to get an overall impression but some get a more favourable mention than others and despite the good points this was not one of our favourites.
If you can get yourself away from the main town of Kralendijk and out of the water then there is a National Park and other interesting land features. Salt Pans, Piles, and Piers Taking...
Bonaire is known for the beautifuland fascinating underwater diving around the island. The diving is predominantly from the shore as the fringing reef is very close. We were not set up for shore dives...
Bonaire is a colourful island both in the houses, the street art, and the underwater world of the reefs and fishes. A hope you enjoy this short insight into the island. Arrival We had...
We only managed to get through a very small portion in the southern part of the SVG group including Union Island, Mayreau Island, Canouan island and the Tobago Cays. The conditions throughout our time...
Carriacou and Petit Martinique are the two inhabited islands north of Grenada, while Rhonde island is an uninhabited island just to the south of them, They have a much lower population than Grenada and...
We were back in Grenada after cruising the islands and Pete has finished his diving ticket so we all decided to go for a scuba dive together to celebrate. We chose to do the...
Arriving in Grenada was great. The welcome, as mentioned on the previous blog(https://kiwiflyingfish.com/2022/02/atlantic-crossing-mindelo-cape-verde-islands-to-port-louis-grenada-1/) by the Port Louis marina, Tourism Grenada and the Vikings group was lovely and made you feel right at home. Port...
The lovely Grenada island with waterfalls, colourful houses, decorated towns, rum, chocolate, fruit and spices.
General The Atlantic Crossing started in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, as you have read, then stopped in Mindelo in the Cape Verde islands for a week then continued on towards Port Louis,...
