Surf in Barbados? Heck Yeah.
Get ready to be kinda jealous. Hannah, Ila, and I just got back from a week-long excursion to Barbados with my sister Caroline and her husband Blake. How was it?
First of all, it’s freakin gorgeous:
And the waves were insane. These first few pics are from a spot called Tropicana. It’s a kind of random reef break on the West Coast. Super shallow with something called “fire coral” underneath, which, apparently, you don’t mess with. At certain points my feet would hit the reef just while I was sitting on my board out at the takeoff point! Not a place you want to fall. Lucky for us, our first time we surfed there it was pretty manageable size-wise. It was also pretty darn perfect. The beach there is also beautiful. This first pic is us checking it for the first time, as some random dude gets shacked. Needless to say we were pumped.
We had a couple of really fun point breaks right near our place on the South Coast, basically at the south point of the island. One of them was a perfect longboard wave. The girls had a blast here. It’s called Freights.
These next pics are from a spot called Mullins, another west coast reef break. Bigger than Tropicana but not as shallow thankfully, and it had a right and a left. Also had a gorgeous beach with a great restaurant. I think it’s safe to say we got this spot about as good as it gets. (P.S. The right was even better/longer than the left, but it was harder to get pics of.)
The following pics are from the world-famous Soup Bowls, arguably the sickest wave in the north Atlantic. The winds and swell were wrong for the spot when we surfed it, which ironically meant that we didn’t get it nearly as good as a lot of the other random spots we surfed, but still, it was easy to tell how much potential the place has. I forgot my board shorts this day, so I’m wearing my regular shorts held on with a leather belt. I had to pull the pockets out because they kept filling up with water. When you add to that the pale skin and reef booties I was wearing to protect my tourist feet from the thousands of merciless urchins covering the reef, I was about has dorky looking as any surfer could be. But we did have head high Soup Bowls almost completely to ourselves so it was worth it.
