Gay's Cove and Welshman Hall

So, the internet in Barbados is a little temperamental, so I apologize for the delay in getting these up. I haven't quite figured out the template of this blog either, so I apologize for funny margins and obscured text. I hope everyone can still at least sort of read it.

Since we finished the module rotations, the next few days have been spent discovering Barbados and its ecology. This day, we first went to Gay's Cove. After a bumpy ride through a cow grazing area, we were treated to a spectacular cliff over looking the east coast of Barbados. We found a bees nest and some very cool spiders and other little critters. We got to walk down the cliffside to the waters edge and walked up and down the pebble beach there as well.

We then headed to Welshman Hall for a picnic lunch. A local tour guide showed us some of the flora in the gully, telling us what some of the plants were used for in traditional medicine and other purposes. We figure she must have thought we were crazy because we kept running off and chasing insects. Dr. Buddle found an ant lion - a predatory insect that makes burrows and waits for ants to fall in. They only walk backwards and are incredibly tiny. Fun stuff!