Yes, Antigua and Barbuda are two Islands that I would look forward to visiting again.  If you use google maps, you can see Barbuda‘s west coast is just a strip of beach on the outside of a lagoon.  In the photo below, the lagoon is on the right side of the beach.  We anchored in Low Bay, there are no services, and during the days we were there never encountered another person on the beach except Goldilocks.

Goldilocks is a local guy offering tours of the frigate bird colony, water taxi trips to Codrington, and lobster dives.  With no other way to contact his customers, walking the beach seems to be his best bet.  So we signed up for Tuesday morning.

We learned that the Frigate birds have up to a five foot wingspan, the males migrate between Barbuda, Mexico and maybe the Galapagos.  They love to be airborne so when not feeding or sitting on the nest, they circle in the updrafts above the island.

The males still looking for a mate puff up their red chests trying to impress the ladies.  If she likes his display, he starts bringing her sticks for the nest.  Eventually they raise an egg together in the mangroves.  The males are black with a red chest, the females are black with a white chest and the chicks still have white feathers on their head.

When the kids got tired of looking at the birds, Goldilocks scooped up these gooey jelly fish for them.  He walked through the lagoon pushing the boat along, answering questions, pointing out things and scooping up jellyfish.

By the end of the trip, the jellys were more interesting than the birds.

 

Since negotiation is the name of the game around here, we negotiated a trip to Codrington to check out with customs and immigration after the frigate bird sanctuary.  Goldilocks led us around the town to take care of the necessary paperwork with a stop at the bakery for cokes and sweet rolls.

At the end of his tour he made one more offer for a lobster dive.  Ok, Ok, Ok, you talked me into it.  It was a good thing, I think the lobsters were the highlight of the whole day, week, cruise!

Apparently, Goldilocks has a lobster farm in the lagoon.  He uses old tires as an artificial reef.  We visited a few tires and a few ledges in 5 or 6 feet of water.  He would stir them up, then Roy and Genny lassoed them around the tail.
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My job was to transport Genny’s catch to the boat.

I questioned the size of the lobster, but Goldilocks said there we’re so many of them and these are the size perfect for eating, a bucket full is an appropriate catch.  In the end we snared 19 bugs.

The lasso was simply a wire with a little slip knot on the end of a stick.  You just slide the loop around the tail and give it a little yank.

 

After a great day, it was time to start cooking.  Nineteen lobster requires quite a few pots of boiling water.

 

We were advised to boil them for 20 minutes.  After the first few pots of whole lobster, I decided to throw take the tails from the rest of them and feed the remainders to the fish living under our boat.  We knew there were plenty of hungry fish down there because Roy was catching them and releasing since the Jacks are not pelagic fish, they feed on reef fish, and could possibly carry ciguatera.  So while they are a fun fish to catch because they are rather big and good fighters, they aren’t something we want to eat.

After all that swimming, fishing, and cooking, it’s time for eating.