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DREAMY DAYS AND STARRY NIGHTS Judith Baker has a glimpse of life in the Caribbean as it used to be on the tiny and bountiful island of Barbuda
2010
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On Barbuda's Low Bay, we eat breakfast at the top of the \"lighthouse\" - an open-sided, two-storey tower plonked in the middle of our resort - admiring the 360-degree view of the Caribbean. A frigate bird passes, but otherwise there's nothing in sight. At night, we return for cocktails. This time there are stars by the million above us, but we feel as if we're the only people on Earth. \"Look, there's Jupiter!\" says Mo, the hotel manager, as if greeting an old friend. Son of a master mariner, he points his telescope at the inky sky, a mass of stellar wonder. The only way to reach tiny Barbuda, 27 miles north of Antigua, is via the larger island. We took a 15-minute flight then approached Lighthouse Bay by pontoon across the lagoon - the Caribbean's largest - but we could have arrived in style on the hotel's private helicopter, which promises to have guests on the carefully raked beach in under an hour from landing at Antigua's international airport. The town is named after Sir Christopher Codrington, who leased the entire island from the British Crown in 1691. It remained in the family's hands until 1872. While sugar cane was the livelihood in Antigua, poor soil and an annual rainfall of around 38 inches made sugar cultivation impossible on the island. Therefore, Sir Christopher introduced cattle, and deer, wild boar and guinea fowl for hunting. Over a home-made chicken lunch cooked by Jackie, the owner of Wa'Omoni's Best, one of Barbuda's best-known local restaurants, I learn that hunting is still a perfectly acceptable pastime here.
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