Tales of the Great Holt-Ysses - Part 7 "Barbados"

Barbados. A nice Island with some interesting history. No one knows why its called Barbados since it means "Bearded Ones"...Who knows, maybe the native indians had beards. In any case we enjoyed this place because we got to do Snuba. Snuba is a variation of scuba except your air supply comes from an air tank sitting on a small raft and a 20ft hose. You wear all the other stuff you would normally wear in Scuba and you breath like you would normally breath with scuba gear. We get to our dive place and get fitted in our gear. We go on a little boat and go out just a few yards from the dive place. We were told that there were several sunken ships in this location and sure enough there were. Before we get to that though I have to tell you about Amy's experience trying to get under water. First thing was that she had to get her breathing and ear pressure regulated under water. This almost didn't happen and after about 10 minutes she was about give up. Finally she relaxed and with her guides good patience she finally was able to dive. I was proud of her! A regular Jacques Cousteau. The only snag we really had was when Amy accidently kicked me with her fin and pulled my hose and regulator from me. I sucked in some water and nearly got sick. This proved to be a not such a good thing since the water that I sucked in made it into my lungs and ultimately caused me to have pneumonia a few days later. Amy was really trying to send me a message that I better straighten up or she will drown me. She's tough like that. Don't worry honey I hear ya!
So, about those sunken ships. These were probably all ships that sunk due to hurricanes or on purpose but in any case they were down there and all of them were cool to see. They were also good because fish liked to hang out by them and there were some really cool fish. Lots of colorful fish and a few eels. Eels are creepy but at the same time cool.
There were some other cool things about Barbados but I think the diving excursion was enough to talk about.
Next post. Going home!