Posts Tagged ‘Caribbean holidays’

The British Desire To Moan

Friday, October 29th, 2010

The British are a downbeat nation, seeking negatives where there are only positives. Our stand-out favourite put-down is about the weather, which we bemoan for twelve months of the year. Whether it is too wet for us to wash the car, too hot to sunbathe or too cold to snow, the weather is a continual source of aggravation. I would argue forcefully the proverb: “variety is the spice of life”. Never can we accuse our climate of being dull, as it continually looks to surprise and even amaze us. The dusting of snow we endured in January 2010 hilariously demonstrated our inability to cope with anything outside of the norm as roads and businesses ground to halt, only for local authorities to shamefully declare they had run out of grit. The widespread chaos cost various businesses billions, not least the automotive insurance industry with many policyholders seeming deliriously unaware of the changing conditions until their car suddenly slewed towards an inanimate obstacle.

Caribbean holidays may be the answer to our misery. Give the pasty British public a ready reminder that even mid-winter the Sun still warms our planet, and one day will return to melt the ice from our roads. Even in the coldest of months, the Caribbean still enjoys temperatures in excess of 28 Centigrade coupled with minimal rainfall. Perhaps injecting a little colour into our skin would stop us cowering next to the warm radiator, considering another tantrum of how the weather has wrecked our best laid plans. Indeed, Barbados holidays may offer the best remedy for the moody Brit, with plenty of activites on offer during the day and a plethora of bars to enjoy by night.

It is not just our climate that we bemoan, but the pride of our nation, the national football team. A perennial underachiever, the team has suffered its share of misfortune and near misses. Rather than painfully watch another England failure, I may decide to escape with Maldives holidays, away from the media hype, badly behaving players and mutinous fans. If only we were to stop heaping such pressure on the team, we might actually avoid disappointment when the England team buckled under the expectation in the opening stages.

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Massive pollution ejectors! One way of explaining what a Cruise Liner is!

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Cruise ships are truly massive. They have a huge amount of staff and hold many tourists. There isn’t enough room aboard the Cruise ship for them to hold it there, so at some point they need to get rid of it?

 

Well many of them do dispose of their waste when they get back to port, sensibly and cleanly. It goes without saying that some of these cruise liners believe they can get away with dumping this waste in the ocean. All of the waste being produced by these monsters are too much for them to hold, they now have to dump it in the ocean. This “dumping” is unacceptable if we want to keep the oceans in clean areas like the Caribbean clean. About five years ago they generated around 30,000 gallons of sewage per day. It is difficult for us to say what the output of these ships is exactly, mainly because a new study has not been carried out.

 

However this isn’t the main problem. The biggest issue is the air pollution that these cruise liners create. They all have high burning Diesel Engines; all of them create massive amounts of deadly toxins that float up into the atmosphere. When a study was performed over ten years from 1991 to 2001 it showed that the British alone purchased 400 percent more cruises at the end of the 10 year period. These numbers will continue to rise, there will be no telling how many people go on a cruise in twenty years time. St Lucia holidays have become very popular, the St Lucian government has even banned some cruise liners from entering its waters.

 

One thing is for sure though, either we find a new way to power these Cruise ships or we are going to have to forget about them altogether. If you’re thinking of going on Barbados holidays or having weddings abroad, then think quickly before the Caribbean is just another victim of pollution. How long will it be before we cant visit the Caribbean just because it has been so badly damaged.

 

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Are holidays abroad worth going on if the weather at home is getting so warm?

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

The planet is heating up, year after year everything is getting warmer. So if the world is getting warmer, then the original ideas for going to the Caribbean for a sunny hot holiday are being dismissed. The Sun is prevailing over the clouds right along the south coast of England.

In any case, is there other reasons for us to visit these places for our Caribbean holidays, or should we just enjoy a cheaper, maybe just as warm holiday closer to home. Global warming has been having increased effects on our world since we started burning fossil fuels; one slight advantage was that the cooler places on the planet have seen a rise in temperature. A big problem with the effects of global warming is that they are changing the environment at a faster rate than we anticipated. The changes in temperature between the atmosphere and the temperature from the ground created by us, have helped exacerbate the problems the Hurricanes present us with. These storms are damaging not only to us but also to the surrounding environment. Tobago holidays will suffer because they rely heavily on Scuba diving tours.

Now it might be getting warmer at home, but in the Caribbean it is heating up as well, and they will be suffering from other increased environmental disturbances like hurricanes or mesoscale connective systems. These Mesoscale systems are a connection of rain, thunder and lightening, all in a line and are very rare, but becoming more likely and more deadly. Relatively soon these areas are going to be changing rapidly, so heading to these destinations is of importance because in some cases you may not be able to visit there later in life. When we talk about these areas, we have to understand that in the future, these locations could be completely different places to how they are now. The Caribbean is not the only place affected by the harsh realities of global warming, the whole world has seen decline in underwater marine life. Some of the places that may have large populations like, Barbados or Cuba will have culture changes because of the change of the environment. So not only will we losing the environment we could lose some cultures along with it.

Popular destinations to get married like St Lucia holidays will slowly decline and this magnificent island will lose its tourism trade.

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How long will the Caribbean coral reef be around?

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Since the world started to realise the damage being done to the planet, this question has been around. How long will we have all the coral reefs over the world and what’s causing them to vanish? There are some reasons that everybody knows as to why the coral reefs are dying and some that aren’t so obvious.

 

Interestingly the Caribbean contains just over 20% of the world’s coral reef and there is a huge amount of damage being done to it. In Honduras they grow several plantains; pineapple, sugar cane and bananas, they use large amounts of fertilizer. The nutrients released by this fertilizer damage coral and can kill fish in the ocean. The farms in this area leak pesticides and fertilizer into the ocean, this damages the coral reef sometimes beyond repair. But the main thing we don’t really realise is that fish are massively important to the coral reefs. The fish in the sea like to eat the bacteria that live an the coral and keep it trim to help promote growth, they also consume the seaweed that is floating around to stop the oxygen being depleted.

 

Apparently fish have dropped in population rates by around 70-95%, a massive fall. When we remove fish from the sea in massive amounts, we are removing a vital part of the corals survival.

 

Another problem is an obvious one, Global Warming. This is the “Biggy”, global warming rises acid levels in the sea and reduces the levels of Aragonite in the ocean. This is a carbonate mineral that coral requires to stay alive and even begin growth. The acid levels in the sea are rising so fast that in about 40 years they will be so high the coral wont be able to survive.

 

However there are few things that we can do to try and help. We can take part in some activities abroad, that allow us to get stuck in with the cleaning of the coral and enjoy ourselves as well. If you do go on luxury holidays or Caribbean holidays you could have the option to go and volunteer for a coral clean up operation, where you can help clean coral underwater or on the shore. This isn’t just rewarding, you can have a good time while you do it too.

 

Also if you go fishing around coral, try not to drop anchor, you will tear the coral apart and damage anything living around it

 

So if your thinking about going abroad or maybe somewhere tropical, maybe some of you want to have weddings abroad, it might be a good idea to get there as soon as you can. If you want you could chip in with the divers and help the coral survive, you never know how much longer it will be around.

 

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