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Blanca & Ian's Travels Antigua Photo Report 1997
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Antigua
One of the Leeward islands of the West Indies. A beautiful ex-English island that has historically been a sugarcane producing island. Now of course, it is reliant on tourism for a lot of its industry. We went in August as a family vacation. |
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On the grounds of the hotel. Many of the palm trees were sporting metal bands from a hurricane of several years before. The resort is now the Jolly Beach Resort http://www.jollybeachresort.com/. It was called Club Antigua when we were there. Not bad overall but it was showing its age around the edges. |
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More of the grounds. They had a pool etc etc. The nightly entertainment was quite good with reggae bands etc. Especially if you were a little drunk . . . | ||
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We hired a driver
for an island tour & saw the sights.
English Harbour with the restored British naval base - known as Nelson's Dockyard built in 1784. Reportedly, Nelson didn't enjoy his time here. |
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The
hot & hazy Shirley Mountains from the sea during a snorkeling expedition. There were a lot of jellyfish in the ocean while we were there. Big ones & really small ones - everywhere. You had to dodge them in the water. |
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island of Montserrat - only 24 miles to the southwest of Antigua - shimmers on the horizon just visible in the photo at left. On our last night, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted in the early evening. This was a big one. |
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