Mini Butternut

Here are some of the fruit we bought at the roadside fruit stand just before entering Fig Tree Road. We had seen at another stand some butternuts squash. But they were very small-tiny in fact.
I felt like stopping and saying, "How come your squash is so small? My friend from Panama says everything grows so much bigger there, I thought your squash would be huge here, too."
So when we were in a grocery store, we saw some of the small squash, thought we need some vegetables to eat anyway.
Cooked it today, taste was okay, but the squash was so small it didn't have any seeds inside. I guess size isn't everything.


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Antigua Pigeon Beach

Spent one day at the beach here at the resort. We weren't on the the beach for more than 5 minutes when some one came by to sell a catamaran trip. We told Myron we didn't think we were interested. A few more hawkers came by at regular intervals to sell jewelry, baskets, more trips, seadoo rentals. Unfortunately for them, lucky for us, we didn't take any money to the beach.

Monday, we drove down towards English Harbour. We stop at Darkwoods beach and another one were there were horses wandering around.

We passed through Fig Tree Drive. This area is quite rain "foresty". Reminded us of the road to Hana in Maui (but much shorter). Stopped at a fruit stand to buy some mangoes, papaya, pineapple, and custard apples (locally known as honey apple, or as Moya or cherimoya).

At English Harbour we came to the site of the National Historic site of Nelson's Dockyard. We weren't quite ready to do the history stuff yet. We glanced at a tourist guide. Pigeon's Point has a great beach it said. And the map showed it to be right near English Harbour. Went down a side road and found a very picturesque beach. Quiet water, nice sandy area with fig trees for shade. We could sit close to the water and yet still keep an eye on the car. Only one hawker came by but since we were hungry, we were happy to pay for a couple of Roti's.

We saw a starfish near the shore. When it was out of the waves it curled up its arms as if trying to go back to the sea.

Later we did go to spend couple of hours at the Dockyards.