Devil's Bridge and Half Moon Bay
On the same day that we arrived at Betty's Hope and Harmony Hall to find them both closed, we also stopped in to check out a few other sights on the Eastern side of the island. I had not yet seen this part of the island, but it is where Dave, Mack and Kerri had stayed on their first week in Antigua.Here are a few of the snaps I took a long the way.
This one is Dave at Long Bay, which is yet another beautiful Antiguan beach. Like Dickenson Bay, this beach was quite busy with lots of market stalls and people in the water and playing on the beach.
We then drove to Devil's Bridge. As you can see in the picture below, this is a natural formation on the coastline, where the constant beating of the ocean on the rocks has worn away some of the softer stone to leave a bridge.
It is believed that many a slave threw themselves off this bridge to their deaths in order to escape their situation. There is also a strange folk story that says that if you throw two eggs off the bridge into the hole that the Devil will keep one and throw the other back out again. Unfortunately we didn't have any eggs on us at the time so we couldn't put this theory to the test. Some people do walk across the bridge to prove their bravery (or is that insanity?!). However, there was absolutely no way that we were going to walk across it though! As you can see, the bridge itself - and all the other rock surrounding this area - is really rough to walk on. That, combined with it being wet and slippery, and the unpredictable spurts of water that come up through the hole, would make crossing it way too risky an exercise!
In the picture below, taken from the other end of the bridge to the picture above, you can see water shooting up through the hole. And if you look really closely at the other end of the bridge (behind the water spray) you can see Mack.
After we left Devil's Bridge we went in search of Harmony Hall and lunch (as per my earlier blog entry). On the way we stopped in to have a look at Half Moon Bay. This beach is somewhat famous for being one of The Discovery Channel's best beaches in the world, and as the name would suggest, the beach is crescent shaped. The picture below is facing the Northern end of the crescent. The view the other way is practically a mirror image. It's quite beautiful, and unlike most of the island's beaches, it does has some surf.
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