barbados.........ie. "the bearded ones". original name given by spanish in 1492. arawaks lived peaceful life. along come cannibal caribs who enjoyed barbequing their victims with a beer sauce! i kid you not. caribs mean and nasty. spanish come along 1492, check it out and split. along come british. they claim it while everyone else fighting over other carib islands.
they start sugar cane fields which leads to rum. mt . gay rum oldest distillary in new world. george washington and his brother visit. brother gets sick and dies. george goes on into history books flogging his men across the cold cold delaware river.
along comes wwII and obvious strategic port.
along comes concorde.
along comes falklands war. last stop fer brits along w/ascension island, before maldives(falklands) many many many moons south. hms conqueror sinks general belgrano heavy cruiser w/major loss of life. belgrano used to be heavy cruiser "USS PHOENIX" hows that fer trivia. hms conqueror flys pirate flag homeward bound after sinking. GOTTA LOVE THESE GUYS!
dumb-a$$ brits learn all about nasty french "exocet-missile". brits no longer build cheap a$$ destroyers out of aluminum after having their a$$'s handed to them with cheap devastating supersonic missile. literally one shot one kill invention, much to brits surprise.
along comes concorde paris crash. concordes grounded. (1) concorde on barbados mothballed.
along comes cruise ships.
port gets dredged to accept deep draft overloaded cruise ships.
now heres my choice reasons...............
barbados and puerto rico are flight hubs. without them no one flys. cat 5 rips thru..... first place for repairs to be done to get aerospace system back in place.
barbados owned by brits.........last i checked they are our allies in a coupla wars. military present there, in case of riots.
rum makes my g/friend HORNEY!
diving on big a$$-ed wrecks makes me HORNEY! one is greek cruise ship 365ft long from 60-120ft down.
diving on 17th century pirate ship anchorage with rum bottles/dabloons/cannon balls etc. makes me even more HORNEY! and the fact it IS NOT A MARINE SANCTUARY, i can keep whatever i find!!!!!!
flights are free..........YEP FREE! pays to buy der porschen on der wells fargo credit card!
and the best reason...............the hotel we are staying at is the "YELLOWBIRD"!
and the country rock band "POCO" has a kick ass song called "BARBADOS" which i can play fairly well on drums.
