Bathsheba Rock
A mushroom-shaped boulder.
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Bathsheba is a fishing village on the east coast of Barbados, where the Atlantic crashes against huge rocks on the shore. Its beach is known as the Soup Bowl, and local and international surfing contests are held here every year. It is the island's wildest and most beautiful scenery. It is the main village of Saint Joseph parish, with small old churches. Saint Joseph Church was built on Horse Hill as early as 1640 and rebuilt in 1839 after the hurricane of 1831. Near the town is Joe's River rainforest, about 34 ha of woodland with giant fig trees, palms and mahogany. On the beach stand big boulders worn away at the base until they look like mushrooms, the best known being Bathsheba Rock just offshore. The surf is white, the sand golden and the hills green above. From the high road you see the coast running north, with an abandoned stone house on a rock. Surfers ride the waves. Bathsheba is 16 km in a straight line north-east of Bridgetown. It is open and free. The sea here is rough with strong currents, so it is for watching and for expert surfers, not for swimming.
A mushroom-shaped boulder.
A famous surf break.
The coast running north.
Bathsheba village, Saint Joseph parish, east coast of Barbados
No, the sea is rough with strong currents.
Most of the year, with contests held annually.