Bath 2024 & 2025

NAVIGATION
This page is a sub-page Historical Imagery, that in turn
a subpage of ObsBath, a top-level page on
the website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds (www.versicolor.ca/barbados).
Go to ObsBath for a list of other subpages in this section
of the website.

Subpages of Historical Imagery
– Bath 1970
– Bath 1994
– Bath 2005
– Bath 2015
– Bath 2024/5 (This Page)

DRAFTING…

My one day visit to Bath in 2024 and another in 2025 were a shock. Over the entire area and even north past Bath Park, I encountered no more than a dozen individual T. testudinum plants, those barely hanging on. There were massive loose beds of P. porites rubble supporting next to nothing. The thick assemblages of Avrainvillea rawsonii on Cobble Framework and Cobble-Sand substrates had largely disappeared, leaving loose rubble between A. nigricans plants, those looking raggedy and many with heavy epiphyte cover. Specimens of the various Caulerpa spp were much fewer than in the past, and also apperred “ragedy”. A. nigricans cover of rock faces remained high but appears heavily epiphytized. There were still vibrant appearring Porites furcata on solid rock bottom, but not on rubble bottom.

It appears that seagrass has been eliminated from the Bath area.

2024

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At edge of Platform

2025

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2025

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