Star Struck In Barbados

I was visiting family members on Saturday night in the Parish of St John, and I couldn’t but help but be amazed at the amount of stars that I could see in the sky. It sure was a beautiful and inspirational site that I had the privilege of experiencing in Barbados.

I had to pull the car over and gaze at the wonderment of all those stars shining brightly in the sky over Barbados. It has been many a year since I have seen the sky lit up so brightly by so many stars, I think the last time I experienced such a wondrous site was when I was camping in the wilderness of Scotland, about 5 years ago at Sandwood Bay, which is near Cape Wrath.

I now have the urge to go and visit the Harry Bayley Observatory, which is open to the public on a Friday evening. It is seemingly the only observatory in the Eastern Caribbean and gives the public the opportunity to see the moon, planets and deep sky objects through a Celestron 14 inch telescope. I think it will be a good experience for not only my wife and myself, but the kid as well.

Hopefully next week, I will be writing about my trip to the Harry Bayley Observatory, if things go according to plan, but this is Barbados and things don’t always to according to plan…..

October 29, 2008 | Filed Under Barbados According To Me 

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3 Responses to “Star Struck In Barbados”

  1. Kerri on October 29th, 2008 10:56 pm

    Wow, cool. I just came in from stargazing in my yard. I checked my journal and saw you had visited and came to say thanks and saw this post. Very neat timing.
    I homeschool my pastor’s niece and we are studying astronomy this year. I wish we could visit the observatory you are talking about it – it sounds very interesting. We are planning a trip to a couple of places that should give good info.
    Hope y’all enjoy the visit to the Observatory if you get to go.

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