“Barbuda, the land where time stands still.” My husband laughed as the airport agent made this comment while checking our passports and boarding passes in the Antigua airport. In response, the agent replied, “No, I’m serious. It’s really beautiful there.” We had hoped that Barbuda would live up to those expectations. I had read about the 17-mile-long beach, the bird sanctuary, and the natural beauty of this island. We were coming for just that experience, one without tourist attractions, without crowds, with just the sound of the waves and the feel of soft sand beneath our feet. Barbuda is located in the eastern Caribbean, just 38 miles to the north…
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With all the hullabaloo about the color of a dress, whether it be black with blue or white with gold, let’s not forget the important things in life, like the color of my sand! We take a look at sand from some of our favorite beaches, Pinney’s Beach on Nevis, Rendezvous Bay on Anguilla, French Leave Beach on Eleuthera, and the famous Pink Sand Beach of Harbour Island, Bahamas. What color is the sand, really? Take a closer look in our piece, “Is That Sand Really Pink?” Happy Friday! SaveSave
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If you read our posts on Eleuthera, you can tell that we loved the pink sand. I had seen many photos of French Leave Beach and Harbour Island before our visit and some looked a bit unreal – – almost a cotton candy hue. I suspected that many of these images are the result of a heavy hand on the saturation slider in the photographer’s post-processing. Often we take a photo, and are frustrated in that it did not capture the color that well. We snap a shot, and the beach looks white or beige, not what we saw at the time. Is that sand really pink? To see…
