ANTIGUA
March 1999
 
 

This is a picture of us at Shirley Heights in Antigua.  What a beautiful view at the top!

This is English Harbor looking down from Shirley Heights.

Some of the old buildings inside Nelson's Dockyard.

This is Jolly Beach at Club Antigua where we stayed.  The beach was beautiful here but the Resort wasn't as it appeared in the brochure.  We had a superior room which meant it had air conditioning, telephone, and a full bath.

This is part of Club Antigua, taken from the beach.  It was clean but was kind of rundown and old fashioned.   They do make up for it with the all inclusive food and drink though.   They are more than generous when mixing the drinks, so beware!

This is the beach behind the Club Antigua.  There  is a beach for every day of the year in Antigua!

There must be something special about an early morning  sail in Antigua.
 

I just love the beach!
 

This is us at one of the restaurants at the resort, " Flamboyant."  You must make reservations when you first arrive and you can only eat there twice during that week.  It was pretty nice, except it was too much silverware for me!

This is the famous "Jolly Roger" pirate ship!   If you want to have a blast, I highly recommend this.  It is an old pirate ship complete with old cannons and all.  They pick you up at 10:00 a.m. and drop you back off at about 3:00p.m.  It has a fun crew but watch out for the rum punch they serve, it is over 150 proof!

This is what they get you to do when you have too much of that rum punch!  Swing off of a rope on the side of the ship.

Or you can just be old fashioned and walk the gang plank.

This is one of the old forts built into the mountain that we saw at one of our stops from the Jolly Roger.

Alot of people say that one of the funnest things is to watch the people get off the Jolly Roger at the end of the day.  This me at the end of the day.

This is me before our helicopter ride to the island of Montserrat.  It was a pretty new helicopter and we had a good pilot, thank goodness!

An approaching view of Montserrat from the helicopter.

Montserrat has an active volcano on it and we took the helicopter tour right over it.  It was kind of eerie being so close to some thing that powerful.  Even more so after seeing the damage it did to the island and the homes to the people who once lived there.  As you can see it is steaming pretty good that day.

Jolly Beach from the air.  Montserrat is off in the distance and on a good day you can see St. Kitts and some of the smaller islands also.

This is my husband before our sunset cruise on the "Kokomo Kat."  It rained as we were leaving the harbor, but it cleared up pretty quick.

John enjoying a cold "Antiguan Gold" , while relaxing on the back of the boat.  Seems pretty relaxed doesn't he?
 

Two ships passing in the night...what a beautiful sight!
There is nothing more romantic than to slow dance on a sail boat as the sun sets.

Antigua has some of the most spectacular sunsets, the colors in the sky are truly remarkable!

It is hard to tell where the water and sky touch.

It got a little stormy near the end of the week, but it was still pretty.

This is the walkway between Club Antigua and Jolly Harbor.

A truly beautiful view when you are on top of the world!