Le Weekend - Scene II - Treasure hunt

Still on my Independence Weekend theme (in which no-one is interested), Sunday afternoon Varia and I accompany Khevyn and his friend Vanya on a 'treasure hunt'. Armed with a set of clues, and a list of things to collect, we set off on a 2.5 hour trek across Barbados.

I had contemplated a leisurely drive cross country, with some equally leisurely stops. It turns out to be a nail-biting experience as we dash madly here and there, stopping only to take pictures of resolved clues (locations) and to collect odd bits of stuff like an old coke bottle, a Merrymen LP, (neither of which we find, but spend many phone calls trying to locate), conch shell, hibiscus flower, cane stalk, shak-shak and a paper dollar bill (these we do).

The drivers receive the briefing and the clues. Khevyn is in the grass skirt. Unlike any other team, we have a theme - the Carib Warriors. Varia is Big Hair, Khevyn is Broken Sword, I am Chief Red Skin (visiting from the nearby island of Camerhogne) and Vanya is...I've forgotten.

An early resolved clue, the hitherto unknown (to me anyway) Bush Bar, 'acknowledged "swine meat" provider located off the main cropover route... '

'Stopped at Cropover, I used to grind, now brought back into service' - what else but Bulkeley Sugar Factory, now used as a transfer station. Yes, this is a posed shot.

Vanya poses to provide evidence of our arrival at the Concorde 'Experience'.

We are also tasked to bring back a photograph of a team member with a Royal Barbados Police Force officer. We find a 'not too unwilling' candidate at District B Police station.

In the end, our 'tour' takes us to the Drive-In, the airport, the Crane, Lemon Arbor, Lion Castle, Rock Hall, the Cubana monument, the 3 Ws monument, the Grantley Adams statue; George Washington House and St George parish church; we never got to St Lucy Parish church and Morgan Lewis...

We lose points for not getting to St. Lucy and for that damn Merrymen LP (I have three in Grenada) and end up somewhere down the ladder. Khevyn and Vanya meanwhile are using it as a dry run for their vastly superior version to be launched in the new year.  Watch this space!