BARBADOS – ISLAND STYLE!
Barbados is the easternmost Island in the Caribbean and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. The island is pear shaped and around 21 miles long and 14 miles wide and is much flatter than many of the neighbouring Caribbean Islands. DeAction centre is close to the airport on the southernmost tip of the island and is the best location for windsurfing. As for surfing, just around the coast from Silver Sands near the red lighthouse are the breaks of South Point and Freights. Freights is the more user friendly of the two breaks with amazing clear turquoise water, while South point is slightly more punchy and more suitable for short boards. When a decent swell hits Barbados, the waves break at various spots all down the West coast and there is always a wave at Bathsheba on the North East Coast, although it can often be onshore with the easterly trades.
Soup Bowls at Bathsheba is easily the heaviest surfing wave on the island and is well known as one of Kelly Slater’s favourite breaks. Brian has sailed it once in his thirty year career, so don’t count on it as a windsurfing option. Tucked away on the eastern tip of the island are Harrismith Beach and Bottom Bay, both stunning beaches in their own right. Bottom Bay is a pure white sand beach, with amazing water colour enclosed by high coral cliffs and surrounded by tall palm trees. Less than half a mile away Harrismith is another stunning beach and has the ruins of an old plantation house on the clifftop overlooking the pearly white sands.