The baths

Another session is underway with new students. As I am writing this they are watching a PADI scuba video inside the boat. They have the luxury of having air-conditioning cooling them down, which hopefully is helping them focus even though it is late and the day started early and has been packed with activities. I’d like to think that they are doing well. I might treat them to a brownie pause in a little bit, if they keep up the good work. Today we visited the baths – a unique geological site to the Caribbean that has large granite boulders stacked on top of one another. It is a spectacular place. It is called the baths for the small pools that the rocks create. Perhaps it has kept his name due to its dark history – it used to be the last stop for the slavery trading ships before selling their goods. The captured slaves, once free men and women, were brought to the baths to be cleaned before sold. It would be the first time they had seen sunlight in months, and I doubt that they found the site as astonishing and amazing as we did today. It must have been a disillusioning experience seeing this landscape so different from the landscape they were taken from.