Natural disasters

It's hurricane season in the Caribbean. Though Barbados hasn't had a bad one for over 20 years, they still put emergency water supplies in my fridge, just in case. There have been no weather problems yet, but other more mundane disasters seem common. Like the fact that my camera is broken. And the fact that when I was shopping for a new one in duty free, I heard my name and the imminent gate closure announced on the speaker system, and found myself sprinting across the crowded terminal with people giving me righteous looks. I will never give a righteous look again.

My camera does work a bit, luckily, but has turned the several of the beautiful countries I've visited into strange post-apocalyptic wastelands. Pink apocalyptic wastelands. But I like science fiction so I wanted to include them.

Let’s do Guyana today, where I went last week for work. Will upload St Lucia and Trinidad at a later date. Hopefully will have new camera from next week...

(In Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, everything is made of wood. It strangely reminds you of the wild west. And this is apparently the largest wooden structure in the world. It was white before the apocalypse)

(They have loads of these in the city, they are essentially very picturesque open sewers running aside the roads, with little oriental trees lining the banks - like a sewer equivalent of a boulevard)

(Can you guess what it is yet? Ethnically, Guyana is really mixed, with about the same number of people of Asian heritage as African. On the way from the airport, there were loads of mosques, temples and churches. And I think these three bovine beauties belonged to one of the Hindu temples)