Just back from a new Barbados assignment. Between Holetown and Mullins Beach, we floated out over clear water and a chalk-white bottom, and we were soon adrift in swimming sea turtles. In candlelight that night, there were plantains and barracuda for dinner – and plenty of cane sugar rum.

I’ll be writing a longer story, but for now, a few more island snapshots: the porch at Hunte’s Gardens and the last intact sugarcane windmill (above). Below, the island’s prized black-bellied lambs, and an above-the-trees view of Prospect Bay Beach in St. James.

– Sandy Lang, February 2011